Re: [PATCH 2/2] dma-mapping: benchmark: prevent potential kthread hang

From: Barry Song
Date: Thu May 02 2024 - 21:45:23 EST


On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 4:29 AM Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If some of kthreads executing map_benchmark_thread() return with an error
> code (e.g. due to a memory allocation failure), then the next kthreads in
> the array are not stopped and potentially loop for indefinite time.
>
> Call kthread_stop() for each started thread as map_benchmark_thread()
> expects that happening in order to exit.
>
> Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org).
>
> Fixes: 65789daa8087 ("dma-mapping: add benchmark support for streaming DMA APIs")
> Signed-off-by: Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/dma/map_benchmark.c | 12 ++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/dma/map_benchmark.c b/kernel/dma/map_benchmark.c
> index ea938bc6c7e3..7e39a4690331 100644
> --- a/kernel/dma/map_benchmark.c
> +++ b/kernel/dma/map_benchmark.c
> @@ -140,13 +140,17 @@ static int do_map_benchmark(struct map_benchmark_data *map)
>
> msleep_interruptible(map->bparam.seconds * 1000);
>
> - /* wait for the completion of benchmark threads */
> + /* wait for the completion of all started benchmark threads */
> for (i = 0; i < threads; i++) {
> - ret = kthread_stop(tsk[i]);
> - if (ret)
> - goto out;
> + int kthread_ret = kthread_stop(tsk[i]);
> +
> + if (kthread_ret)
> + ret = kthread_ret;
> }
>
> + if (ret)
> + goto out;
> +

do we still need to do copy_to_user(argp, &map->bparam, sizeof(map->bparam)
after do_map_benchmark(map) fails?
do we also need the below?
diff --git a/kernel/dma/map_benchmark.c b/kernel/dma/map_benchmark.c
index 02205ab53b7e..28ca165cb62c 100644
--- a/kernel/dma/map_benchmark.c
+++ b/kernel/dma/map_benchmark.c
@@ -252,6 +252,9 @@ static long map_benchmark_ioctl(struct file *file,
unsigned int cmd,
* dma_mask changed by benchmark
*/
dma_set_mask(map->dev, old_dma_mask);
+
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
break;
default:
return -EINVAL;


> loops = atomic64_read(&map->loops);
> if (likely(loops > 0)) {
> u64 map_variance, unmap_variance;
> --
> 2.45.0
>
>