[PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/28] refscale: Bounds-check module parameters

paulmck
2020-11-05T23:47:24Z

The default value for refscale.nreaders is -1, which results in the code
setting the value to three-quarters of the number of CPUs. On single-CPU
systems, this results in three-quarters of the value one, which the C
language's integer arithmetic rounds to zero. This in turn results in
a divide-by-zero error.

This commit therefore adds bounds checking to the refscale module
parameters, so that if they are less than one, they are set to the
value one.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Tested-by "Chen, Rong A" <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
---
kernel/rcu/refscale.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/refscale.c b/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
index 952595c..fb5f20d 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
@@ -681,6 +681,12 @@ ref_scale_init(void)
// Reader tasks (default to ~75% of online CPUs).
if (nreaders < 0)
nreaders = (num_online_cpus() >> 1) + (num_online_cpus() >> 2);
+ if (WARN_ONCE(loops <= 0, "%s: loops = %ld, adjusted to 1\n", __func__, loops))
+ loops = 1;
+ if (WARN_ONCE(nreaders <= 0, "%s: nreaders = %d, adjusted to 1\n", __func__, nreaders))
+ nreaders = 1;
+ if (WARN_ONCE(nruns <= 0, "%s: nruns = %d, adjusted to 1\n", __func__, nruns))
+ nruns = 1;
reader_tasks = kcalloc(nreaders, sizeof(reader_tasks[0]),
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!reader_tasks) {
--
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