This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
idr test suite: Create anchor before launching throbber
to the 5.11-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:
idr-test-suite-create-anchor-before-launching-throbb.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 47d288d91b2e1383ef3fc56758a981291f987de4
Author: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Apr 1 07:46:49 2021 -0400
idr test suite: Create anchor before launching throbber
[ Upstream commit 094ffbd1d8eaa27ed426feb8530cb1456348b018 ]
The throbber could race with creation of the anchor entry and cause the
IDR to have zero entries in it, which would cause the test to fail.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/tools/testing/radix-tree/idr-test.c b/tools/testing/radix-tree/idr-test.c
index 4a9b451b7ba0..6ce7460f3c7a 100644
--- a/tools/testing/radix-tree/idr-test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/radix-tree/idr-test.c
@@ -301,11 +301,11 @@ void idr_find_test_1(int anchor_id, int throbber_id)
pthread_t throbber;
time_t start = time(NULL);
- pthread_create(&throbber, NULL, idr_throbber, &throbber_id);
-
BUG_ON(idr_alloc(&find_idr, xa_mk_value(anchor_id), anchor_id,
anchor_id + 1, GFP_KERNEL) != anchor_id);
+ pthread_create(&throbber, NULL, idr_throbber, &throbber_id);
+
rcu_read_lock();
do {
int id = 0;
