linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/28] refscale: Bounds-check module parameters

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Message-Id: <20201105234719.23307-1-paulmck@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu,  5 Nov 2020 15:46:52 -0800
From:   paulmck@...nel.org
To:     rcu@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com, mingo@...nel.org,
        jiangshanlai@...il.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@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/28] refscale: Bounds-check module parameters

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>

The default value for refscale.nreaders is -1, which results in the code
setting the value to three-quarters of the number of CPUs.  On single-CPU
systems, this results in three-quarters of the value one, which the C
language's integer arithmetic rounds to zero.  This in turn results in
a divide-by-zero error.

This commit therefore adds bounds checking to the refscale module
parameters, so that if they are less than one, they are set to the
value one.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
Tested-by "Chen, Rong A" <rong.a.chen@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/rcu/refscale.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/refscale.c b/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
index 952595c..fb5f20d 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
@@ -681,6 +681,12 @@ ref_scale_init(void)
 	// Reader tasks (default to ~75% of online CPUs).
 	if (nreaders < 0)
 		nreaders = (num_online_cpus() >> 1) + (num_online_cpus() >> 2);
+	if (WARN_ONCE(loops <= 0, "%s: loops = %ld, adjusted to 1\n", __func__, loops))
+		loops = 1;
+	if (WARN_ONCE(nreaders <= 0, "%s: nreaders = %d, adjusted to 1\n", __func__, nreaders))
+		nreaders = 1;
+	if (WARN_ONCE(nruns <= 0, "%s: nruns = %d, adjusted to 1\n", __func__, nruns))
+		nruns = 1;
 	reader_tasks = kcalloc(nreaders, sizeof(reader_tasks[0]),
 			       GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!reader_tasks) {
-- 
2.9.5