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rcu: Prevent initialization race in rcutorture kthreads

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When you do something like "t = kthread_run(...)", it is possible that
the kthread will start running before the assignment to "t" happens.
If the child kthread expects to find a pointer to its task_struct in "t",
it will then be fatally disappointed.  This commit therefore switches
such cases to kthread_create() followed by wake_up_process(), guaranteeing
that the assignment happens before the child kthread starts running.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney 2012-08-25 15:27:40 -07:00
parent 2caa1e4432
commit 60f53782c5
1 changed files with 6 additions and 4 deletions
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@ -2029,14 +2029,15 @@ rcu_torture_init(void)
/* Start up the kthreads. */
VERBOSE_PRINTK_STRING("Creating rcu_torture_writer task");
writer_task = kthread_run(rcu_torture_writer, NULL,
"rcu_torture_writer");
writer_task = kthread_create(rcu_torture_writer, NULL,
"rcu_torture_writer");
if (IS_ERR(writer_task)) {
firsterr = PTR_ERR(writer_task);
VERBOSE_PRINTK_ERRSTRING("Failed to create writer");
writer_task = NULL;
goto unwind;
}
wake_up_process(writer_task);
fakewriter_tasks = kzalloc(nfakewriters * sizeof(fakewriter_tasks[0]),
GFP_KERNEL);
if (fakewriter_tasks == NULL) {
@ -2151,14 +2152,15 @@ rcu_torture_init(void)
}
if (shutdown_secs > 0) {
shutdown_time = jiffies + shutdown_secs * HZ;
shutdown_task = kthread_run(rcu_torture_shutdown, NULL,
"rcu_torture_shutdown");
shutdown_task = kthread_create(rcu_torture_shutdown, NULL,
"rcu_torture_shutdown");
if (IS_ERR(shutdown_task)) {
firsterr = PTR_ERR(shutdown_task);
VERBOSE_PRINTK_ERRSTRING("Failed to create shutdown");
shutdown_task = NULL;
goto unwind;
}
wake_up_process(shutdown_task);
}
i = rcu_torture_onoff_init();
if (i != 0) {