linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 4/6] rcutorture: Fix rcu_torture

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Date:	Fri, 17 Jul 2015 16:45:35 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	mingo@...nel.org, jiangshanlai@...il.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
	josh@...htriplett.org, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
	dvhart@...ux.intel.com, fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com,
	bobby.prani@...il.com,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 4/6] rcutorture: Fix rcu_torture_cbflood() for callback-free RCU

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

The rcu_torture_cbflood() function correctly checks for flavors of
RCU that lack analogs to call_rcu() and rcu_barrier(), but in that
case it fails to terminate correctly.  In fact, it terminates so
incorrectly that segfaults can result.  This commit therefore causes
rcu_torture_cbflood() to do the proper wait-for-stop procedure.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
index 1cead7806ca6..e0eda3c1b621 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
@@ -823,9 +823,7 @@ rcu_torture_cbflood(void *arg)
 	}
 	if (err) {
 		VERBOSE_TOROUT_STRING("rcu_torture_cbflood disabled: Bad args or OOM");
-		while (!torture_must_stop())
-			schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ);
-		return 0;
+		goto wait_for_stop;
 	}
 	VERBOSE_TOROUT_STRING("rcu_torture_cbflood task started");
 	do {
@@ -844,6 +842,7 @@ rcu_torture_cbflood(void *arg)
 		stutter_wait("rcu_torture_cbflood");
 	} while (!torture_must_stop());
 	vfree(rhp);
+wait_for_stop:
 	torture_kthread_stopping("rcu_torture_cbflood");
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
1.8.1.5

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