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authorDaniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>2022-11-16 20:28:04 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-12-31 13:32:34 +0100
commitff28b8afb786f262fd2cbb2de8b004f9af7807aa (patch)
tree45c767bdaabd4823b14f946eff61ca6531b2b421 /kernel/padata.c
parent6cfa9e60c0f88fdec6368e081ab968411cc706b1 (diff)
downloadlinux-ff28b8afb786f262fd2cbb2de8b004f9af7807aa.tar.gz
padata: Fix list iterator in padata_do_serial()
[ Upstream commit 57ddfecc72a6c9941d159543e1c0c0a74fe9afdd ]

list_for_each_entry_reverse() assumes that the iterated list is nonempty
and that every list_head is embedded in the same type, but its use in
padata_do_serial() breaks both rules.

This doesn't cause any issues now because padata_priv and padata_list
happen to have their list fields at the same offset, but we really
shouldn't be relying on that.

Fixes: bfde23ce200e ("padata: unbind parallel jobs from specific CPUs")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/padata.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/padata.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/padata.c b/kernel/padata.c
index 97f51e0c1776..de90af5fcbe6 100644
--- a/kernel/padata.c
+++ b/kernel/padata.c
@@ -390,13 +390,16 @@ void padata_do_serial(struct padata_priv *padata)
 	int hashed_cpu = padata_cpu_hash(pd, padata->seq_nr);
 	struct padata_list *reorder = per_cpu_ptr(pd->reorder_list, hashed_cpu);
 	struct padata_priv *cur;
+	struct list_head *pos;
 
 	spin_lock(&reorder->lock);
 	/* Sort in ascending order of sequence number. */
-	list_for_each_entry_reverse(cur, &reorder->list, list)
+	list_for_each_prev(pos, &reorder->list) {
+		cur = list_entry(pos, struct padata_priv, list);
 		if (cur->seq_nr < padata->seq_nr)
 			break;
-	list_add(&padata->list, &cur->list);
+	}
+	list_add(&padata->list, pos);
 	spin_unlock(&reorder->lock);
 
 	/*