locking/locktorture: Fix NULL pointer dereference for cleanup paths
authorDavidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Tue, 12 Apr 2016 15:47:18 +0000 (08:47 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 13 Apr 2016 06:52:23 +0000 (08:52 +0200)
commitc1c33b92db4fb274dfbff778ccf2459e4bebd48e
treef07d5e6d6ed6cb852499e8579401580df257dd22
parent1f190931893a98ffd5d4cfdfbfc2452ad0ed3e1b
locking/locktorture: Fix NULL pointer dereference for cleanup paths

It has been found that paths that invoke cleanups through
lock_torture_cleanup() can trigger NULL pointer dereferencing
bugs during the statistics printing phase. This is mainly
because we should not be calling into statistics before we are
sure things have been set up correctly.

Specifically, early checks (and the need for handling this in
the cleanup call) only include parameter checks and basic
statistics allocation. Once we start write/read kthreads
we then consider the test as started. As such, update the function
in question to check for cxt.lwsa writer stats, if not set,
we either have a bogus parameter or -ENOMEM situation and
therefore only need to deal with general torture calls.

Reported-and-tested-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: bobby.prani@gmail.com
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: dvhart@linux.intel.com
Cc: edumazet@google.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: jiangshanlai@gmail.com
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460476038-27060-2-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/locking/locktorture.c