linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/2] srcu: Check for in-flight callbacks in _cleanup_srcu

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Message-Id: <20190326231531.20047-1-paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Tue, 26 Mar 2019 16:15:30 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     rcu@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 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 1/2] srcu: Check for in-flight callbacks in _cleanup_srcu_struct()

If someone fails to drain the corresponding SRCU callbacks (for
example, by failing to invoke srcu_barrier()) before invoking either
cleanup_srcu_struct() or cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced(), the resulting
diagnostic is an ambiguous use-after-free diagnostic, and even then
only if you are running something like KASAN.  This commit therefore
improves SRCU diagnostics by adding checks for in-flight callbacks at
_cleanup_srcu_struct() time.

Note that these diagnostics can still be defeated, for example, by
invoking call_srcu() concurrently with cleanup_srcu_struct().  Which is
a really bad idea, but sometimes all too easy to do.  But even then,
these diagnostics have at least some probability of catching the problem.

Reported-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>
Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
---
 kernel/rcu/srcutree.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
index a60b8ba9e1ac..4f30f3ecabc1 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
@@ -387,6 +387,8 @@ void _cleanup_srcu_struct(struct srcu_struct *ssp, bool quiesced)
 			del_timer_sync(&sdp->delay_work);
 			flush_work(&sdp->work);
 		}
+		if (WARN_ON(rcu_segcblist_n_cbs(&sdp->srcu_cblist)))
+			return; /* Forgot srcu_barrier(), so just leak it! */
 	}
 	if (WARN_ON(rcu_seq_state(READ_ONCE(ssp->srcu_gp_seq)) != SRCU_STATE_IDLE) ||
 	    WARN_ON(srcu_readers_active(ssp))) {
-- 
2.17.1