From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> Given that sysfs can change the value of rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump at any time, this commit adds a READ_ONCE() to the accesses to that variable. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h index a1780a6..0fde39b 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h @@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ static void check_cpu_stall(struct rcu_data *rdp) /* We haven't checked in, so go dump stack. */ print_cpu_stall(gps); - if (rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump) + if (READ_ONCE(rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump)) rcu_ftrace_dump(DUMP_ALL); } else if (rcu_gp_in_progress() && @@ -632,7 +632,7 @@ static void check_cpu_stall(struct rcu_data *rdp) /* They had a few time units to dump stack, so complain. */ print_other_cpu_stall(gs2, gps); - if (rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump) + if (READ_ONCE(rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump)) rcu_ftrace_dump(DUMP_ALL); } } -- 2.9.5