This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled rcu: Eliminate rcu_gp_slow_unregister() false positive to the 6.1-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: rcu-eliminate-rcu_gp_slow_unregister-false-positive.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit d6aceb7a93200615a3bd9bbe156c224739ecc388 Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Aug 18 08:53:58 2023 -0700 rcu: Eliminate rcu_gp_slow_unregister() false positive [ Upstream commit 0ae9942f03d0d034fdb0a4f44fc99f62a3107987 ] When using rcutorture as a module, there are a number of conditions that can abort the modprobe operation, for example, when attempting to run both RCU CPU stall warning tests and forward-progress tests. This can cause rcu_torture_cleanup() to be invoked on the unwind path out of rcu_rcu_torture_init(), which will mean that rcu_gp_slow_unregister() is invoked without a matching rcu_gp_slow_register(). This will cause a splat because rcu_gp_slow_unregister() is passed rcu_fwd_cb_nodelay, which does not match a NULL pointer. This commit therefore forgives a mismatch involving a NULL pointer, thus avoiding this false-positive splat. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c index 86923a8914007..dd6e15ca63b0c 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c @@ -1336,7 +1336,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_gp_slow_register); /* Unregister a counter, with NULL for not caring which. */ void rcu_gp_slow_unregister(atomic_t *rgssp) { - WARN_ON_ONCE(rgssp && rgssp != rcu_gp_slow_suppress); + WARN_ON_ONCE(rgssp && rgssp != rcu_gp_slow_suppress && rcu_gp_slow_suppress != NULL); WRITE_ONCE(rcu_gp_slow_suppress, NULL); }