From: Joel Fernandes <jfern@kernel.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>,
Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>,
Joel Fernandes <jfern@kernel.org>,
Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
Boqun Feng <boqun@kernel.org>,
Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
Zqiang <qiang.zhang@linux.dev>,
Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: rcu@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH for-v7.5 10/14] scftorture: Reject empty workloads before starting helpers
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2026 19:57:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261113005747.2977123-11-jfern@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261113005747.2977123-1-jfern@kernel.org>
A module loaded with nthreads=0 starts its statistics task, but cleanup
skips stopping that task. Unloading the module then leaves it executing
freed module text. Reject a zero thread count before starting helpers;
negative counts still select the online CPU count.
Also, when built as a module with reschedule-only, this leaves the
selector empty because resched_cpu() is unavailable to modules. It warns
while selecting an operation, invokes no callbacks, and can nevertheless
report SUCCESS. Reject an empty effective selector after filtering
unsupported operations.
Both failures were reproduced in a guest without the patches.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <jfern@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
---
kernel/scftorture.c | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/scftorture.c b/kernel/scftorture.c
index 603b2dba1536..ff9a8271a464 100644
--- a/kernel/scftorture.c
+++ b/kernel/scftorture.c
@@ -588,6 +588,12 @@ static int __init scf_torture_init(void)
scftorture_print_module_parms("Start of test");
+ if (!nthreads) {
+ SCFTORTOUT_ERRSTRING("nthreads must be nonzero");
+ firsterr = -EINVAL;
+ goto unwind;
+ }
+
if (weight_resched <= 0 &&
weight_single <= 0 && weight_single_rpc <= 0 && weight_single_wait <= 0 &&
weight_many <= 0 && weight_many_wait <= 0 &&
@@ -636,6 +642,11 @@ static int __init scf_torture_init(void)
scf_sel_add(weight_many_wait1, SCF_PRIM_MANY, true);
scf_sel_add(weight_all1, SCF_PRIM_ALL, false);
scf_sel_add(weight_all_wait1, SCF_PRIM_ALL, true);
+ if (!scf_sel_array_len) {
+ SCFTORTOUT_ERRSTRING("no supported operations selected");
+ firsterr = -EINVAL;
+ goto unwind;
+ }
scf_sel_dump();
if (onoff_interval > 0) {
--
2.54.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-13 0:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-13 0:57 [PATCH for-v7.5 00/14] RCU tests patches for v7.5 Joel Fernandes
2026-11-13 0:57 ` [PATCH for-v7.5 01/14] Documentation/litmus-tests: Add SRCU fastpath anchor-before-scan test Joel Fernandes
2026-11-13 0:57 ` [PATCH for-v7.5 02/14] Documentation/litmus-tests: Add SRCU fastpath scan-before-anchor test Joel Fernandes
2026-11-13 0:57 ` [PATCH for-v7.5 03/14] kasan: Avoid an unrelated RCU warning in the callback test Joel Fernandes
2026-11-13 0:57 ` [PATCH for-v7.5 04/14] rcutorture: Fix busted_srcud crash on module unload Joel Fernandes
2026-11-13 0:57 ` [PATCH for-v7.5 05/14] rcutorture: Fix suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage for trivial-preempt Joel Fernandes
2026-11-13 0:57 ` [PATCH for-v7.5 06/14] rcutorture: Make tasks-tracing support duplicate call testing Joel Fernandes
2026-11-13 0:57 ` [PATCH for-v7.5 07/14] rcutorture: Avoid create fwd_prog_tasks for tasks-rude and srcu-atomic Joel Fernandes
2026-11-13 0:57 ` [PATCH for-v7.5 08/14] rcuscale: Consolidate per-writer arrays into struct writer_state Joel Fernandes
2026-11-13 0:57 ` [PATCH for-v7.5 09/14] rcuscale: Add srcua scale type Joel Fernandes
2026-11-13 0:57 ` Joel Fernandes [this message]
2026-11-13 0:57 ` [PATCH for-v7.5 11/14] scftorture: Protect the initial affinity check from hotplug Joel Fernandes
2026-11-13 0:57 ` [PATCH for-v7.5 12/14] rcutorture: Enable RCU_BOOST where supported Joel Fernandes
2026-11-13 0:57 ` [PATCH for-v7.5 13/14] rcutorture: Disable RCU priority boost testing on non-TREE03 scenarios Joel Fernandes
2026-11-13 0:57 ` [PATCH for-v7.5 14/14] torture: Forgive SMT-control failures in CPU-hotplug testing Joel Fernandes
2026-11-13 7:28 ` [PATCH for-v7.5 00/14] RCU tests patches for v7.5 Bradley Morgan
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