This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled rcutorture: Properly set rcu_fwds for OOM handling to the 5.8-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: rcutorture-properly-set-rcu_fwds-for-oom-handling.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit d6b758e57e523d867dfdfdf8d6f34a201f220830 Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Jul 19 14:40:31 2020 -0700 rcutorture: Properly set rcu_fwds for OOM handling [ Upstream commit c8fa63714763b7795a3f5fb7ed6d000763e6dccc ] The conversion of rcu_fwds to dynamic allocation failed to actually allocate the required structure. This commit therefore allocates it, frees it, and updates rcu_fwds accordingly. While in the area, it abstracts the cleanup actions into rcu_torture_fwd_prog_cleanup(). Fixes: 5155be9994e5 ("rcutorture: Dynamically allocate rcu_fwds structure") Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c index efb792e13fca9..23ec68d8ff3aa 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c @@ -2154,9 +2154,20 @@ static int __init rcu_torture_fwd_prog_init(void) return -ENOMEM; spin_lock_init(&rfp->rcu_fwd_lock); rfp->rcu_fwd_cb_tail = &rfp->rcu_fwd_cb_head; + rcu_fwds = rfp; return torture_create_kthread(rcu_torture_fwd_prog, rfp, fwd_prog_task); } +static void rcu_torture_fwd_prog_cleanup(void) +{ + struct rcu_fwd *rfp; + + torture_stop_kthread(rcu_torture_fwd_prog, fwd_prog_task); + rfp = rcu_fwds; + rcu_fwds = NULL; + kfree(rfp); +} + /* Callback function for RCU barrier testing. */ static void rcu_torture_barrier_cbf(struct rcu_head *rcu) { @@ -2360,7 +2371,7 @@ rcu_torture_cleanup(void) show_rcu_gp_kthreads(); rcu_torture_barrier_cleanup(); - torture_stop_kthread(rcu_torture_fwd_prog, fwd_prog_task); + rcu_torture_fwd_prog_cleanup(); torture_stop_kthread(rcu_torture_stall, stall_task); torture_stop_kthread(rcu_torture_writer, writer_task);