From: Hui Su <sh_def@163.com>
To: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: mhiramat@kernel.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Hui Su <sh_def@163.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ring-buffer: Fix crash passing ERR_PTR to kthread_stop()
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2026 23:41:46 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260807154145.2846521-2-sh_def@163.com> (raw)
In test_ringbuffer()'s out_free cleanup loop, the check
`!rb_threads[cpu]` only catches NULL entries and misses entries that
hold an ERR_PTR.
rb_threads[] is static, so unassigned slots are NULL. But when
kthread_run_on_cpu() fails for a cpu, it stores ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) (or
-EINTR) in rb_threads[cpu] before the creation loop jumps to out_free.
That entry is non-NULL, so the old `!ptr` check does not break, and the
cleanup proceeds to call kthread_stop() on the ERR_PTR. kthread_stop()
then dereferences the bogus pointer, crashing the kernel during the
late_initcall self-test.
crash logs:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000001c
Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI
CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 7.2.0-rc6-dirty #7 PREEMPT(lazy)
RIP: 0010:kthread_stop+0x2e/0x220
RBX: fffffffffffffff4
CR2: 000000000000001c
Call Trace:
<TASK>
test_ringbuffer+0x1ec/0x650
do_one_initcall+0x6c/0x2c0
kernel_init_freeable+0x21d/0x420
kernel_init+0x15/0x1c0
ret_from_fork+0x21b/0x320
</TASK>
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
Fixes: 64ed3a049e3e ("ring-buffer: make use of the helper function kthread_run_on_cpu()")
Signed-off-by: Hui Su <sh_def@163.com>
---
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 8e2485bb3aa8..6af7e36ca526 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -8214,7 +8214,7 @@ static __init int test_ringbuffer(void)
out_free:
for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
- if (!rb_threads[cpu])
+ if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(rb_threads[cpu]))
break;
kthread_stop(rb_threads[cpu]);
}
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-08-07 15:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-07 15:41 Hui Su [this message]
2026-08-07 16:50 ` [PATCH] ring-buffer: Fix crash passing ERR_PTR to kthread_stop() Vincent Donnefort
2026-08-07 22:17 ` Masami Hiramatsu
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