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authorVanGiang Nguyen <vangiang.nguyen@rohde-schwarz.com>2024-08-09 06:21:42 +0000
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2024-08-17 13:55:50 +0800
commit9a22b2812393d93d84358a760c347c21939029a6 (patch)
treec2ecded39607917d856f62aa19ce8d71b31a06d0
parentf2f853e7ae4cb0aaf758fa30c07689a8d82680bc (diff)
padata: use integer wrap around to prevent deadlock on seq_nr overflow
When submitting more than 2^32 padata objects to padata_do_serial, the current sorting implementation incorrectly sorts padata objects with overflowed seq_nr, causing them to be placed before existing objects in the reorder list. This leads to a deadlock in the serialization process as padata_find_next cannot match padata->seq_nr and pd->processed because the padata instance with overflowed seq_nr will be selected next. To fix this, we use an unsigned integer wrap around to correctly sort padata objects in scenarios with integer overflow. Fixes: bfde23ce200e ("padata: unbind parallel jobs from specific CPUs") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Co-developed-by: Christian Gafert <christian.gafert@rohde-schwarz.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Gafert <christian.gafert@rohde-schwarz.com> Co-developed-by: Max Ferger <max.ferger@rohde-schwarz.com> Signed-off-by: Max Ferger <max.ferger@rohde-schwarz.com> Signed-off-by: Van Giang Nguyen <vangiang.nguyen@rohde-schwarz.com> Acked-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
-rw-r--r--kernel/padata.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/padata.c b/kernel/padata.c
index 53f4bc912712..222bccd0c96b 100644
--- a/kernel/padata.c
+++ b/kernel/padata.c
@@ -404,7 +404,8 @@ void padata_do_serial(struct padata_priv *padata)
/* Sort in ascending order of sequence number. */
list_for_each_prev(pos, &reorder->list) {
cur = list_entry(pos, struct padata_priv, list);
- if (cur->seq_nr < padata->seq_nr)
+ /* Compare by difference to consider integer wrap around */
+ if ((signed int)(cur->seq_nr - padata->seq_nr) < 0)
break;
}
list_add(&padata->list, pos);