linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 14/24] rcuperf: Do not wake up shutdown wait queue if "shutdown" is false.

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Message-Id: <1460475837-26498-14-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 12 Apr 2016 08:43:47 -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, Artem Savkov <artem.savkov@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 14/24] rcuperf: Do not wake up shutdown wait queue if "shutdown" is false.

From: Artem Savkov <artem.savkov@...il.com>

After finishing its tests rcuperf tries to wake up shutdown_wq even if
"shutdown" param is set to false, resulting in a wake_up() call on an
unitialized wait_queue_head_t which leads to "BUG: spinlock bad magic" and
"BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference".

Fix by checking "shutdown" param before waking up the queue.

Signed-off-by: Artem Savkov <artem.savkov@...il.com>
---
 kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c b/kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c
index 4c0572859ff0..3cee0d8393ed 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c
@@ -423,8 +423,10 @@ rcu_perf_writer(void *arg)
 					b_rcu_perf_writer_finished =
 						cur_ops->completed();
 				}
-				smp_mb(); /* Assign before wake. */
-				wake_up(&shutdown_wq);
+				if (shutdown) {
+					smp_mb(); /* Assign before wake. */
+					wake_up(&shutdown_wq);
+				}
 			}
 		}
 		if (done && !alldone &&
-- 
2.5.2