[PATCH tip/core/rcu 10/28] rcuscale: Prevent hangs for invalid arguments

From: paulmck
Date: Thu Nov 05 2020 - 18:48:13 EST


From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>

If an rcuscale torture-test run is given a bad kvm.sh argument, the
test will complain to the console, which is good. What is bad is that
from the user's perspective, it will just hang for the time specified
by the --duration argument. This commit therefore forces an immediate
kernel shutdown if a rcu_scale_init()-time error occurs, thus avoiding
the appearance of a hang. It also forces a console splat in this case
to clearly indicate the presence of an error.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/rcu/rcuscale.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcuscale.c b/kernel/rcu/rcuscale.c
index c42f240..06491d5 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcuscale.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcuscale.c
@@ -802,7 +802,6 @@ rcu_scale_init(void)
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(scale_ops); i++)
pr_cont(" %s", scale_ops[i]->name);
pr_cont("\n");
- WARN_ON(!IS_MODULE(CONFIG_RCU_SCALE_TEST));
firsterr = -EINVAL;
cur_ops = NULL;
goto unwind;
@@ -876,6 +875,10 @@ rcu_scale_init(void)
unwind:
torture_init_end();
rcu_scale_cleanup();
+ if (shutdown) {
+ WARN_ON(!IS_MODULE(CONFIG_RCU_SCALE_TEST));
+ kernel_power_off();
+ }
return firsterr;
}

--
2.9.5