Re: [PATCH RT 4.19] rcutorture: Fix oops when selecting non-default torture_type

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Fri Mar 22 2019 - 05:22:52 EST


On 2019-03-21 22:21:21 [-0500], Scott Wood wrote:
> rcu_bh is disabled on PREEMPT_RT via a stub ops that has no name. Thus,
> if a torture_type other than "rcu" is used, rcu_torture_init() will
> pass NULL to strcmp() when iterating over torture_ops[], and oops.
>
> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <swood@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> With this applied to 4.19.25-rt16 and specifying torture_type=sched,
> similar rcutorture failures are seen as with 5.0.3-rt1 (in which standard
> torture_cype=rcu no longer has .extendables=0 and thus stresses similar
> paths).

Anna-Maria was talking about this to me a long time ago, I though we
fixed that. But since your patch targets v4.19 it is not the case.
As far v4.19 goes, I think it can go in but this is up to Steven now.

Does this still apply to 5.0-RT? The RCU was greatly reworked so it may
no longer apply and just work. However the "random context" in
rcutorture gives me a headache right nowâ

> kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
> index 7d2a615601e7..408d03048911 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
> +++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
> @@ -479,6 +479,7 @@ static struct rcu_torture_ops rcu_bh_ops = {
> #else
> static struct rcu_torture_ops rcu_bh_ops = {
> .ttype = INVALID_RCU_FLAVOR,
> + .name = "rcu_bh"
> };
> #endif
>

Sebastian