From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" rostedt@goodmis.org

Running on a slower machine, it is possible that the preempt delay kernel thread may still be executing if the module was immediately removed after added, and this can cause the kernel to crash as the kernel thread might be executing after its code has been removed.

There's no reason that the caller of the code shouldn't just wait for the delay thread to finish, as the thread can also be created by a trigger in the sysfs code, which also has the same issues.

Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/5EA2B0C8.2080706@cn.fujitsu.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 793937236d1ee ("lib: Add module for testing preemptoff/irqsoff latency tracers") Reported-by: Xiao Yang yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com Reviewed-by: Xiao Yang yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes joel@joelfernandes.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org --- kernel/trace/preemptirq_delay_test.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/preemptirq_delay_test.c b/kernel/trace/preemptirq_delay_test.c index 31c0fad4cb9e..c4c86de63cf9 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/preemptirq_delay_test.c +++ b/kernel/trace/preemptirq_delay_test.c @@ -113,22 +113,42 @@ static int preemptirq_delay_run(void *data)

for (i = 0; i < s; i++) (testfuncs[i])(i); + + set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); + while (!kthread_should_stop()) { + schedule(); + set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); + } + + __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); + return 0; }

-static struct task_struct *preemptirq_start_test(void) +static int preemptirq_run_test(void) { + struct task_struct *task; + char task_name[50];

snprintf(task_name, sizeof(task_name), "%s_test", test_mode); - return kthread_run(preemptirq_delay_run, NULL, task_name); + task = kthread_run(preemptirq_delay_run, NULL, task_name); + if (IS_ERR(task)) + return PTR_ERR(task); + if (task) + kthread_stop(task); + return 0; }

static ssize_t trigger_store(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t count) { - preemptirq_start_test(); + ssize_t ret; + + ret = preemptirq_run_test(); + if (ret) + return ret; return count; }

@@ -148,11 +168,9 @@ static struct kobject *preemptirq_delay_kobj;

static int __init preemptirq_delay_init(void) { - struct task_struct *test_task; int retval;

- test_task = preemptirq_start_test(); - retval = PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(test_task); + retval = preemptirq_run_test(); if (retval != 0) return retval;