This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled rcuscale: Provide clear error when async specified without primitives to the 5.15-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: rcuscale-provide-clear-error-when-async-specified-wi.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 849a058043439420ed04025cc10d93ef0e282417 Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Aug 1 17:43:03 2024 -0700 rcuscale: Provide clear error when async specified without primitives [ Upstream commit 11377947b5861fa59bf77c827e1dd7c081842cc9 ] Currently, if the rcuscale module's async module parameter is specified for RCU implementations that do not have async primitives such as RCU Tasks Rude (which now lacks a call_rcu_tasks_rude() function), there will be a series of splats due to calls to a NULL pointer. This commit therefore warns of this situation, but switches to non-async testing. Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraj.upadhyay@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcuscale.c b/kernel/rcu/rcuscale.c index a83cb29d37607..f90955dc15327 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/rcuscale.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/rcuscale.c @@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ rcu_scale_writer(void *arg) udelay(writer_holdoff); wdp = &wdpp[i]; *wdp = ktime_get_mono_fast_ns(); - if (gp_async) { + if (gp_async && !WARN_ON_ONCE(!cur_ops->async)) { retry: if (!rhp) rhp = kmalloc(sizeof(*rhp), GFP_KERNEL); @@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ rcu_scale_writer(void *arg) i++; rcu_scale_wait_shutdown(); } while (!torture_must_stop()); - if (gp_async) { + if (gp_async && cur_ops->async) { cur_ops->gp_barrier(); } writer_n_durations[me] = i_max + 1;