From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>, Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>,
Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>,
Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@parallels.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] Use of probe_kernel_address() in task_rcu_dereference() without checking return value
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 08:43:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wiKqLjr_9cqJvgEzWWnMKQJgCpc1sT9o0kimfQdyE6NFA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190830154023.GF13294@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 8:40 AM Russell King - ARM Linux admin
<linux@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Ah, ok. Might be worth some comments - I find the comments in that
> function particularly unhelpful (even after Oleg mentions this is
> case 2.)
Yeah, a comment like "This might fault if we race with the task
scheduling away and being destroyed, but we check that below".
But that code has some performance issues too, as mentioned. Which is
all kinds of sad since it clearly _tries_ to perform well with RCU
locking and optimistic accesses etc.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-30 15:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-30 14:08 [BUG] Use of probe_kernel_address() in task_rcu_dereference() without checking return value Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-08-30 15:24 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-08-30 15:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-08-30 15:40 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-08-30 15:43 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2019-08-30 15:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-08-30 16:09 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-08-30 16:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-08-30 16:44 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-08-30 16:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-08-30 19:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-02 13:40 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-09-02 13:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-02 14:44 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-09-02 16:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-02 17:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-02 17:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-03 4:50 ` [PATCH 0/3] task: Making tasks on the runqueue rcu protected Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-03 4:51 ` [PATCH 1/3] task: Add a count of task rcu users Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-04 14:36 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-09-04 14:44 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2019-09-04 15:32 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-09-04 16:33 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2019-09-04 18:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-05 14:59 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2019-09-03 4:52 ` [PATCH 2/3] task: RCU protect tasks on the runqueue Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-03 7:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-03 7:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-03 16:44 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-03 17:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-03 18:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-03 19:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-03 20:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-03 21:32 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-09-05 20:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-05 20:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-09-06 7:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-09 12:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-25 7:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-27 8:10 ` [tip: sched/urgent] tasks, sched/core: RCUify the assignment of rq->curr tip-bot2 for Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-03 19:42 ` [PATCH 2/3] task: RCU protect tasks on the runqueue Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-14 12:31 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] task: Add a count of task rcu users Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-14 12:31 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] task: Ensure tasks are available for a grace period after leaving the runqueue Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-14 12:32 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] task: With a grace period after finish_task_switch, remove unnecessary code Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-04 14:22 ` [PATCH 2/3] task: RCU protect tasks on the runqueue Frederic Weisbecker
2019-09-03 4:52 ` [PATCH 3/3] task: Clean house now that tasks on the runqueue are rcu protected Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-03 9:45 ` kbuild test robot
2019-09-03 13:06 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-09-03 13:58 ` [PATCH 0/3] task: Making tasks on the runqueue " Oleg Nesterov
2019-09-03 15:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-03 19:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
[not found] ` <87muf7f4bf.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org>
2019-09-14 12:33 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] task: Add a count of task rcu users Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-15 13:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-09-27 8:10 ` [tip: sched/urgent] tasks: Add a count of task RCU users tip-bot2 for Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-14 12:33 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] task: Ensure tasks are available for a grace period after leaving the runqueue Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-15 14:07 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-09-15 14:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-09-27 8:10 ` [tip: sched/urgent] tasks, sched/core: " tip-bot2 for Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-14 12:34 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] task: With a grace period after finish_task_switch, remove unnecessary code Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-15 14:32 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-09-15 17:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-15 18:47 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-09-27 8:10 ` [tip: sched/urgent] tasks, sched/core: With a grace period after finish_task_switch(), " tip-bot2 for Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-14 12:35 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] task: RCUify the assignment of rq->curr Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-15 14:41 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-09-15 17:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-15 18:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-15 18:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-09-20 23:02 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2019-09-26 1:49 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-26 12:42 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2019-09-14 17:43 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] task: Making tasks on the runqueue rcu protected Linus Torvalds
2019-09-17 17:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-25 7:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-26 1:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
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