On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 10:55:51AM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> This is correct because cct is allocated via alloc_percpu, which in
> turn calls kzalloc, which means cct->task is NULL by default, but it's
> a little too obscure for me. How about making it explicit?
>
> task = kthread_create(...)
> if (!IS_ERR(task))
> cct->task = task;
> else
> cct->task = NULL;
>
> return cct->task;
Subject: [PATCH -mm] ehca: avoid crash on kthread_create() failure (v3)
This patch disallows invalid task_struct pointer returned by
kthread_create() to be written to percpu data to avoid crash.
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Hoang-Nam Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Christoph Raisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_irq.c | 11 ++++++++---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Index: 2.6-mm/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_irq.c
===================================================================
--- 2.6-mm.orig/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_irq.c
+++ 2.6-mm/drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_irq.c
@@ -606,15 +606,20 @@ static int comp_task(void *__cct)
static struct task_struct *create_comp_task(struct ehca_comp_pool *pool,
int cpu)
{
+ struct task_struct *task;
struct ehca_cpu_comp_task *cct;
cct = per_cpu_ptr(pool->cpu_comp_tasks, cpu);
spin_lock_init(&cct->task_lock);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cct->cq_list);
init_waitqueue_head(&cct->wait_queue);
- cct->task = kthread_create(comp_task, cct, "ehca_comp/%d", cpu);
+ task = kthread_create(comp_task, cct, "ehca_comp/%d", cpu);
+ if (!IS_ERR(task))
+ cct->task = task;
+ else
+ cct->task = NULL;
- return cct->task;
+ return task;
}
static void destroy_comp_task(struct ehca_comp_pool *pool,
@@ -684,8 +689,10 @@ static int comp_pool_callback(struct not
case CPU_UP_CANCELED:
ehca_gen_dbg("CPU: %x (CPU_CANCELED)", cpu);
cct = per_cpu_ptr(pool->cpu_comp_tasks, cpu);
- kthread_bind(cct->task, any_online_cpu(cpu_online_map));
- destroy_comp_task(pool, cpu);
+ if (cct->task) {
+ kthread_bind(cct->task, any_online_cpu(cpu_online_map));
+ destroy_comp_task(pool, cpu);
+ }
break;
case CPU_ONLINE:
ehca_gen_dbg("CPU: %x (CPU_ONLINE)", cpu);
-
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