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    refscale: Fix uninitalized use of wait_queue_head_t · f5063e89
    Waiman Long authored
    Running the refscale test occasionally crashes the kernel with the
    following error:
    
    [ 8569.952896] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffffffffe8
    [ 8569.952900] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
    [ 8569.952902] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
    [ 8569.952904] PGD c4b048067 P4D c4b049067 PUD c4b04b067 PMD 0
    [ 8569.952910] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT_RT SMP NOPTI
    [ 8569.952916] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R750/0WMWCR, BIOS 1.2.4 05/28/2021
    [ 8569.952917] RIP: 0010:prepare_to_wait_event+0x101/0x190
      :
    [ 8569.952940] Call Trace:
    [ 8569.952941]  <TASK>
    [ 8569.952944]  ref_scale_reader+0x380/0x4a0 [refscale]
    [ 8569.952959]  kthread+0x10e/0x130
    [ 8569.952966]  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
    [ 8569.952973]  </TASK>
    
    The likely cause is that init_waitqueue_head() is called after the call to
    the torture_create_kthread() function that creates the ref_scale_reader
    kthread.  Although this init_waitqueue_head() call will very likely
    complete before this kthread is created and starts running, it is
    possible that the calling kthread will be delayed between the calls to
    torture_create_kthread() and init_waitqueue_head().  In this case, the
    new kthread will use the waitqueue head before it is properly initialized,
    which is not good for the kernel's health and well-being.
    
    The above crash happened here:
    
    	static inline void __add_wait_queue(...)
    	{
    		:
    		if (!(wq->flags & WQ_FLAG_PRIORITY)) <=== Crash here
    
    The offset of flags from list_head entry in wait_queue_entry is
    -0x18. If reader_tasks[i].wq.head.next is NULL as allocated reader_task
    structure is zero initialized, the instruction will try to access address
    0xffffffffffffffe8, which is exactly the fault address listed above.
    
    This commit therefore invokes init_waitqueue_head() before creating
    the kthread.
    
    Fixes: 653ed64b ("refperf: Add a test to measure performance of read-side synchronization")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWaiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarQiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@intel.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDavidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
    Acked-by: default avatarJoel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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