Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] scftorture: Avoid kfree from IRQ context.

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Fri Nov 08 2024 - 13:33:45 EST


On Fri, Nov 08, 2024 at 09:46:07AM -0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2024 at 11:39:30AM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Paul reported kfree from IRQ context in scftorture which is noticed by
> > lockdep since the recent PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING switch.
> >
> > The last patch in this series adresses the issues, the other things
> > happened on the way.
> >
> > v2...v3:
> > - The clean up on module exit must not be done with thread numbers.
> > Reported by Boqun Feng.
> > - Move the clean up on module exit prior to torture_cleanup_end().
> > Reported by Paul.
> >
> > v1...v2:
> > - Remove kfree_bulk(). I get more invocations per report without it.
> > - Pass `cpu' to scf_cleanup_free_list in scftorture_invoker() instead
> > of scfp->cpu. The latter is the thread number which can be larger
> > than the number CPUs leading to a crash in such a case. Reported by
> > Boqun Feng.
> > - Clean up the per-CPU lists on module exit. Reported by Boqun Feng.
> >
> > Sebastian
> >
>
> For the whole series:
>
> Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx>

Thank you both!

Sebastian, I am guessing that the Kconfig change exposing the bugs fixed
by your series is headed to mainline for the upcoming merge window?

If so, I should of course push these in as well.

Thanx, Paul