[PATCH rcu 7/8] torture: Wake up kthreads after storing task_struct pointer

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Fri Feb 04 2022 - 18:53:40 EST


Currently, _torture_create_kthread() uses kthread_run() to create
torture-test kthreads, which means that the resulting task_struct
pointer is stored after the newly created kthread has been marked
runnable. This in turn can cause spurious failure of checks for
code being run by a particular kthread. This commit therefore changes
_torture_create_kthread() to use kthread_create(), then to do an explicit
wake_up_process() after the task_struct pointer has been stored.

Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/torture.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/torture.c b/kernel/torture.c
index f55d803f995d4..789aeb0e1159c 100644
--- a/kernel/torture.c
+++ b/kernel/torture.c
@@ -931,12 +931,14 @@ int _torture_create_kthread(int (*fn)(void *arg), void *arg, char *s, char *m,
int ret = 0;

VERBOSE_TOROUT_STRING(m);
- *tp = kthread_run(fn, arg, "%s", s);
+ *tp = kthread_create(fn, arg, "%s", s);
if (IS_ERR(*tp)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(*tp);
TOROUT_ERRSTRING(f);
*tp = NULL;
+ return ret;
}
+ wake_up_process(*tp); // Process is sleeping, so ordering provided.
torture_shuffle_task_register(*tp);
return ret;
}
--
2.31.1.189.g2e36527f23