linux-kernel - [PATCH rcu 12/14] rcuscale: NULL out top-level pointers to heap memory

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Message-Id: <20240816070256.60993-12-neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 12:32:54 +0530
From: neeraj.upadhyay@...nel.org
To: rcu@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...a.com,
	rostedt@...dmis.org,
	paulmck@...nel.org,
	neeraj.upadhyay@...nel.org,
	neeraj.upadhyay@....com,
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	joel@...lfernandes.org,
	urezki@...il.com,
	frederic@...nel.org
Subject: [PATCH rcu 12/14] rcuscale: NULL out top-level pointers to heap memory

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

Currently, if someone modprobes and rmmods rcuscale successfully, but
the next run errors out during the modprobe, non-NULL pointers to freed
memory will remain.  If the run after that also errors out during the
modprobe, there will be double-free bugs.

This commit therefore NULLs out top-level pointers to memory that has
just been freed.

Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraj.upadhyay@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/rcu/rcuscale.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcuscale.c b/kernel/rcu/rcuscale.c
index bc7cca979c06..61a178914256 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcuscale.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcuscale.c
@@ -819,6 +819,7 @@ kfree_scale_cleanup(void)
 			torture_stop_kthread(kfree_scale_thread,
 					     kfree_reader_tasks[i]);
 		kfree(kfree_reader_tasks);
+		kfree_reader_tasks = NULL;
 	}
 
 	torture_cleanup_end();
@@ -987,6 +988,7 @@ rcu_scale_cleanup(void)
 			torture_stop_kthread(rcu_scale_reader,
 					     reader_tasks[i]);
 		kfree(reader_tasks);
+		reader_tasks = NULL;
 	}
 
 	if (writer_tasks) {
@@ -1043,8 +1045,11 @@ rcu_scale_cleanup(void)
 			}
 		}
 		kfree(writer_tasks);
+		writer_tasks = NULL;
 		kfree(writer_durations);
+		writer_durations = NULL;
 		kfree(writer_n_durations);
+		writer_n_durations = NULL;
 		kfree(writer_done);
 		writer_done = NULL;
 		kfree(writer_freelists);
-- 
2.40.1