From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> It turns out that init_srcu_struct() can be invoked from usermode tasks, and that fatal signals received by these tasks can cause memory-allocation failures. These failures are not handled well by init_srcu_struct(), so much so that NULL pointer dereferences can result. This commit therefore causes init_srcu_struct() to take an early exit upon detection of memory-allocation failure. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200908144306.33355-1-aik@xxxxxxxxx/ Reported-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/rcu/srcutree.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c index c13348e..6f7880a 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c @@ -177,11 +177,13 @@ static int init_srcu_struct_fields(struct srcu_struct *ssp, bool is_static) INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&ssp->work, process_srcu); if (!is_static) ssp->sda = alloc_percpu(struct srcu_data); + if (!ssp->sda) + return -ENOMEM; init_srcu_struct_nodes(ssp, is_static); ssp->srcu_gp_seq_needed_exp = 0; ssp->srcu_last_gp_end = ktime_get_mono_fast_ns(); smp_store_release(&ssp->srcu_gp_seq_needed, 0); /* Init done. */ - return ssp->sda ? 0 : -ENOMEM; + return 0; } #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC -- 2.9.5
