It has been found that paths that invoke cleanups through lock_torture_cleanup() can incur in nil pointer dereferencing bugs during the statistics printing phase. This is mainly because we should not be calling into statistics before we are sure things have been setup correctly.
Specifically, early checks (and the need for handling this in the cleanup call) only include parameter checks and basic statistics allocation. Once we start write/read kthreads we then consider the test as started. As such, update the func in question to check for cxt.lwsa writer stats, if not set, we either have a bogus parameter or ENOMEM situation and therefore only need to deal with general torture calls Reported-and-tested-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.w...@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbu...@suse.de> --- kernel/locking/locktorture.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/locking/locktorture.c b/kernel/locking/locktorture.c index 9e9c5f454f5c..d066a50dc87e 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/locktorture.c +++ b/kernel/locking/locktorture.c @@ -748,6 +748,15 @@ static void lock_torture_cleanup(void) if (torture_cleanup_begin()) return; + /* + * Indicates early cleanup, meaning that the test has not run, + * such as when passing bogus args when loading the module. As + * such, only perform the underlying torture-specific cleanups, + * and avoid anything related to locktorture. + */ + if (!cxt.lwsa) + goto end; + if (writer_tasks) { for (i = 0; i < cxt.nrealwriters_stress; i++) torture_stop_kthread(lock_torture_writer, @@ -776,6 +785,7 @@ static void lock_torture_cleanup(void) else lock_torture_print_module_parms(cxt.cur_ops, "End of test: SUCCESS"); +end: torture_cleanup_end(); } @@ -870,6 +880,7 @@ static int __init lock_torture_init(void) VERBOSE_TOROUT_STRING("cxt.lrsa: Out of memory"); firsterr = -ENOMEM; kfree(cxt.lwsa); + cxt.lwsa = NULL; goto unwind; } @@ -878,6 +889,7 @@ static int __init lock_torture_init(void) cxt.lrsa[i].n_lock_acquired = 0; } } + lock_torture_print_module_parms(cxt.cur_ops, "Start of test"); /* Prepare torture context. */ -- 2.1.4