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Message-Id: <1524452624-27589-17-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Sun, 22 Apr 2018 20:03:40 -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,
        fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com, joel.opensrc@...il.com,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, npiggin@...il.com,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 17/21] rcu: Make rcu_start_this_gp() check for out-of-range requests

If rcu_start_this_gp() is invoked with a requested grace period more
than three in the future, then either the ->need_future_gp[] array
needs to be bigger or the caller needs to be repaired.  This commit
therefore adds a WARN_ON_ONCE() checking for this condition.

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

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index d3c769502929..07bccb1f0c87 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -1698,6 +1698,8 @@ static bool rcu_start_this_gp(struct rcu_node *rnp, struct rcu_data *rdp,
 	for (rnp_root = rnp; 1; rnp_root = rnp_root->parent) {
 		if (rnp_root != rnp)
 			raw_spin_lock_rcu_node(rnp_root);
+		WARN_ON_ONCE(ULONG_CMP_LT(rnp_root->gpnum +
+					  need_future_gp_mask(), c));
 		if (need_future_gp_element(rnp_root, c) ||
 		    ULONG_CMP_GE(rnp_root->gpnum, c) ||
 		    (rnp != rnp_root &&
-- 
2.5.2

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