[PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/2] srcu: Check for in-flight callbacks in _cleanup_srcu_struct()

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Mar 26 2019 - 19:15:42 EST


If someone fails to drain the corresponding SRCU callbacks (for
example, by failing to invoke srcu_barrier()) before invoking either
cleanup_srcu_struct() or cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced(), the resulting
diagnostic is an ambiguous use-after-free diagnostic, and even then
only if you are running something like KASAN. This commit therefore
improves SRCU diagnostics by adding checks for in-flight callbacks at
_cleanup_srcu_struct() time.

Note that these diagnostics can still be defeated, for example, by
invoking call_srcu() concurrently with cleanup_srcu_struct(). Which is
a really bad idea, but sometimes all too easy to do. But even then,
these diagnostics have at least some probability of catching the problem.

Reported-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx>
---
kernel/rcu/srcutree.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
index a60b8ba9e1ac..4f30f3ecabc1 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
@@ -387,6 +387,8 @@ void _cleanup_srcu_struct(struct srcu_struct *ssp, bool quiesced)
del_timer_sync(&sdp->delay_work);
flush_work(&sdp->work);
}
+ if (WARN_ON(rcu_segcblist_n_cbs(&sdp->srcu_cblist)))
+ return; /* Forgot srcu_barrier(), so just leak it! */
}
if (WARN_ON(rcu_seq_state(READ_ONCE(ssp->srcu_gp_seq)) != SRCU_STATE_IDLE) ||
WARN_ON(srcu_readers_active(ssp))) {
--
2.17.1