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authorZqiang <qiang.zhang1211@gmail.com>2026-03-04 10:57:24 +0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2026-03-25 11:06:01 +0100
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parent8af210df4f71dda74dc027da69372a028c6d4d84 (diff)
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rcu/nocb: Fix possible invalid rdp's->nocb_cb_kthread pointer access
[ Upstream commit 1bba3900ca18bdae28d1b9fa10f16a8f8cb2ada1 ] In the preparation stage of CPU online, if the corresponding the rdp's->nocb_cb_kthread does not exist, will be created, there is a situation where the rdp's rcuop kthreads creation fails, and then de-offload this CPU's rdp, does not assign this CPU's rdp->nocb_cb_kthread pointer, but this rdp's->nocb_gp_rdp and rdp's->rdp_gp->nocb_gp_kthread is still valid. This will cause the subsequent re-offload operation of this offline CPU, which will pass the conditional check and the kthread_unpark() will access invalid rdp's->nocb_cb_kthread pointer. This commit therefore use rdp's->nocb_gp_kthread instead of rdp_gp's->nocb_gp_kthread for safety check. Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang1211@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org> [ Minor conflict resolved. ] Signed-off-by: Jianqiang kang <jianqkang@sina.cn> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h
index 8993b2322be2..a3d613f063a8 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h
@@ -1221,7 +1221,6 @@ static long rcu_nocb_rdp_offload(void *arg)
struct rcu_segcblist *cblist = &rdp->cblist;
unsigned long flags;
int wake_gp;
- struct rcu_data *rdp_gp = rdp->nocb_gp_rdp;
WARN_ON_ONCE(rdp->cpu != raw_smp_processor_id());
/*
@@ -1231,7 +1230,7 @@ static long rcu_nocb_rdp_offload(void *arg)
if (!rdp->nocb_gp_rdp)
return -EINVAL;
- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!rdp_gp->nocb_gp_kthread))
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!rdp->nocb_gp_kthread))
return -EINVAL;
pr_info("Offloading %d\n", rdp->cpu);
@@ -1260,7 +1259,7 @@ static long rcu_nocb_rdp_offload(void *arg)
*/
wake_gp = rdp_offload_toggle(rdp, true, flags);
if (wake_gp)
- wake_up_process(rdp_gp->nocb_gp_kthread);
+ wake_up_process(rdp->nocb_gp_kthread);
swait_event_exclusive(rdp->nocb_state_wq,
rcu_segcblist_test_flags(cblist, SEGCBLIST_KTHREAD_CB) &&
rcu_segcblist_test_flags(cblist, SEGCBLIST_KTHREAD_GP));