4.19-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Paul E. McKenney paulmck@kernel.org
[ Upstream commit 8b9b443fa860276822b25057cb3ff3b28734dec0 ]
The "pipe_count > RCU_TORTURE_PIPE_LEN" check has a comment saying "Should not happen, but...". This is only true when testing an RCU whose grace periods are always long enough. This commit therefore fixes this comment.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wi7rJ-eGq+xaxVfzFEgbL9tdf6Kc8Z89rCpfcQOKm... Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney paulmck@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) urezki@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c index 0b7af7e2bcbb1..8986ef3a95888 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c @@ -1334,7 +1334,8 @@ static bool rcu_torture_one_read(struct torture_random_state *trsp) preempt_disable(); pipe_count = p->rtort_pipe_count; if (pipe_count > RCU_TORTURE_PIPE_LEN) { - /* Should not happen, but... */ + // Should not happen in a correct RCU implementation, + // happens quite often for torture_type=busted. pipe_count = RCU_TORTURE_PIPE_LEN; } completed = cur_ops->get_gp_seq();