On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 01:14:10PM +0200, Steffen Klassert wrote: > > Maybe we can fix it if we call padata_free_pd() from > padata_serial_worker() when it sent out the last object. How about using RCU? We still need to fix up the refcnt if it's supposed to limit the overall number of outstanding requests. ---8<--- The function padata_do_serial uses parallel_data without obeying the RCU rules around its life-cycle. This means that a concurrent padata_replace call can result in a crash. This patch fixes it by using RCU just as we do in padata_do_parallel. Fixes: 16295bec6398 ("padata: Generic parallelization/...") Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/include/linux/padata.h b/include/linux/padata.h index 5d13d25da2c8..952f6514dd72 100644 --- a/include/linux/padata.h +++ b/include/linux/padata.h @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ * struct padata_priv - Embedded to the users data structure. * * @list: List entry, to attach to the padata lists. - * @pd: Pointer to the internal control structure. + * @inst: Pointer to the overall control structure. * @cb_cpu: Callback cpu for serializatioon. * @cpu: Cpu for parallelization. * @seq_nr: Sequence number of the parallelized data object. @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ */ struct padata_priv { struct list_head list; - struct parallel_data *pd; + struct padata_instance *inst; int cb_cpu; int cpu; int info; diff --git a/kernel/padata.c b/kernel/padata.c index 2d2fddbb7a4c..fb5dd1210d2b 100644 --- a/kernel/padata.c +++ b/kernel/padata.c @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ int padata_do_parallel(struct padata_instance *pinst, err = 0; atomic_inc(&pd->refcnt); - padata->pd = pd; + padata->inst = pinst; padata->cb_cpu = cb_cpu; target_cpu = padata_cpu_hash(pd); @@ -367,7 +368,7 @@ void padata_do_serial(struct padata_priv *padata) struct parallel_data *pd; int reorder_via_wq = 0; - pd = padata->pd; + pd = rcu_dereference_bh(padata->inst->pd); cpu = get_cpu(); -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt