This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
kernel/async.c: revert "async: simplify lowest_in_progress()"
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: kernel-async.c-revert-async-simplify-lowest_in_progress.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From 4f7e988e63e336827f4150de48163bed05d653bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rasmus Villemoes linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 15:37:55 -0800 Subject: kernel/async.c: revert "async: simplify lowest_in_progress()"
From: Rasmus Villemoes linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
commit 4f7e988e63e336827f4150de48163bed05d653bd upstream.
This reverts commit 92266d6ef60c ("async: simplify lowest_in_progress()") which was simply wrong: In the case where domain is NULL, we now use the wrong offsetof() in the list_first_entry macro, so we don't actually fetch the ->cookie value, but rather the eight bytes located sizeof(struct list_head) further into the struct async_entry.
On 64 bit, that's the data member, while on 32 bit, that's a u64 built from func and data in some order.
I think the bug happens to be harmless in practice: It obviously only affects callers which pass a NULL domain, and AFAICT the only such caller is
async_synchronize_full() -> async_synchronize_full_domain(NULL) -> async_synchronize_cookie_domain(ASYNC_COOKIE_MAX, NULL)
and the ASYNC_COOKIE_MAX means that in practice we end up waiting for the async_global_pending list to be empty - but it would break if somebody happened to pass (void*)-1 as the data element to async_schedule, and of course also if somebody ever does a async_synchronize_cookie_domain(, NULL) with a "finite" cookie value.
Maybe the "harmless in practice" means this isn't -stable material. But I'm not completely confident my quick git grep'ing is enough, and there might be affected code in one of the earlier kernels that has since been removed, so I'll leave the decision to the stable guys.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171128104938.3921-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk Fixes: 92266d6ef60c "async: simplify lowest_in_progress()" Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk Acked-by: Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org Cc: Arjan van de Ven arjan@linux.intel.com Cc: Adam Wallis awallis@codeaurora.org Cc: Lai Jiangshan laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- kernel/async.c | 20 ++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/async.c +++ b/kernel/async.c @@ -84,20 +84,24 @@ static atomic_t entry_count;
static async_cookie_t lowest_in_progress(struct async_domain *domain) { - struct list_head *pending; + struct async_entry *first = NULL; async_cookie_t ret = ASYNC_COOKIE_MAX; unsigned long flags;
spin_lock_irqsave(&async_lock, flags);
- if (domain) - pending = &domain->pending; - else - pending = &async_global_pending; + if (domain) { + if (!list_empty(&domain->pending)) + first = list_first_entry(&domain->pending, + struct async_entry, domain_list); + } else { + if (!list_empty(&async_global_pending)) + first = list_first_entry(&async_global_pending, + struct async_entry, global_list); + }
- if (!list_empty(pending)) - ret = list_first_entry(pending, struct async_entry, - domain_list)->cookie; + if (first) + ret = first->cookie;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&async_lock, flags); return ret;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk are
queue-4.4/kernel-async.c-revert-async-simplify-lowest_in_progress.patch