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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-12-08 10:48:41 -0800
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2018-02-20 16:21:56 -0800
commiteb0339934f1d468ff09d9be1c608c89cb1da850b (patch)
tree1ee5394b2d8046eccd2165a853ee1ff5a5338965 /kernel/rcu
parente0d31a34c6db6381bfc630a9ee93f05b9447dcc3 (diff)
downloadlinux-eb0339934f1d468ff09d9be1c608c89cb1da850b.tar.gz
rcutorture: Avoid fake-writer use of undefined primitives
Currently the rcu_torture_fakewriter() function invokes cur_ops->sync()
and cur_ops->exp_sync() without first checking to see if they are in
fact non-NULL.  This results in kernel NULL pointer dereferences when
testing RCU implementations that choose not to provide the full set of
primitives.  Given that it is perfectly reasonable to have specialized
RCU implementations that provide only a subset of the RCU API, this is
a bug in rcutorture.

This commit therefore makes rcu_torture_fakewriter() check function
pointers before invoking them, thus allowing it to test subsetted
RCU implementations.

Reported-by: Lihao Liang <lianglihao@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcu')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
index 0f94025c672a..6c46cd1d8fd7 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
@@ -1045,13 +1045,13 @@ rcu_torture_fakewriter(void *arg)
 		    torture_random(&rand) % (nfakewriters * 8) == 0) {
 			cur_ops->cb_barrier();
 		} else if (gp_normal == gp_exp) {
-			if (torture_random(&rand) & 0x80)
+			if (cur_ops->sync && torture_random(&rand) & 0x80)
 				cur_ops->sync();
-			else
+			else if (cur_ops->exp_sync)
 				cur_ops->exp_sync();
-		} else if (gp_normal) {
+		} else if (gp_normal && cur_ops->sync) {
 			cur_ops->sync();
-		} else {
+		} else if (cur_ops->exp_sync) {
 			cur_ops->exp_sync();
 		}
 		stutter_wait("rcu_torture_fakewriter");