srcu: Lock srcu_data structure in srcu_gp_start()
authorDennis Krein <Dennis.Krein@netapp.com>
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 14:38:24 +0000 (07:38 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 13 Jan 2019 08:51:06 +0000 (09:51 +0100)
commitb57b3b00828467b922838731827385174ae9a9c9
tree3e30ff51cb49ba71aa7fed401e2dc5f4e89ad1d6
parent378f9dfa495a548cbc87173477d8c4b8cbea8826
srcu: Lock srcu_data structure in srcu_gp_start()

commit eb4c2382272ae7ae5d81fdfa5b7a6c86146eaaa4 upstream.

The srcu_gp_start() function is called with the srcu_struct structure's
->lock held, but not with the srcu_data structure's ->lock.  This is
problematic because this function accesses and updates the srcu_data
structure's ->srcu_cblist, which is protected by that lock.  Failing to
hold this lock can result in corruption of the SRCU callback lists,
which in turn can result in arbitrarily bad results.

This commit therefore makes srcu_gp_start() acquire the srcu_data
structure's ->lock across the calls to rcu_segcblist_advance() and
rcu_segcblist_accelerate(), thus preventing this corruption.

Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Reported-by: Sebastian Kuzminsky <seb.kuzminsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Krein <Dennis.Krein@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Dennis Krein <Dennis.Krein@netapp.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.16.x
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/rcu/srcutree.c