linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 09/12] rcu: Protect rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation() access to ->gp

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Message-Id: <20190109212834.1257-9-paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Wed,  9 Jan 2019 13:28:31 -0800
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.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@...lfernandes.org,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 09/12] rcu: Protect rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation() access to ->gp_flags

The rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation() function can be invoked without
holding locks, so the access to the rcu_state structure's ->gp_flags
field must be protected with READ_ONCE().  This commit therefore adds
this protection.

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

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 8543a90d53f2..238150684fed 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -1192,7 +1192,7 @@ static void rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation(void)
 		pr_err("%s kthread starved for %ld jiffies! g%ld f%#x %s(%d) ->state=%#lx ->cpu=%d\n",
 		       rcu_state.name, j,
 		       (long)rcu_seq_current(&rcu_state.gp_seq),
-		       rcu_state.gp_flags,
+		       READ_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_flags),
 		       gp_state_getname(rcu_state.gp_state), rcu_state.gp_state,
 		       gpk ? gpk->state : ~0, gpk ? task_cpu(gpk) : -1);
 		if (gpk) {
-- 
2.17.1