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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2016-03-09 14:08:10 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-03-09 15:43:42 -0800
commitd77a117e6871ff78a06def46583d23752593de60 (patch)
tree79bf0536897d69bcca3832dd77f4ac1ce6ec034e /lib
parent06b241f32c711d7ca868a0351dd97fe91fd8817b (diff)
downloadlinux-d77a117e6871ff78a06def46583d23752593de60.tar.bz2
list: kill list_force_poison()
Given we have uninitialized list_heads being passed to list_add() it will always be the case that those uninitialized values randomly trigger the poison value. Especially since a list_add() operation will seed the stack with the poison value for later stack allocations to trip over. For example, see these two false positive reports: list_add attempted on force-poisoned entry WARNING: at lib/list_debug.c:34 [..] NIP [c00000000043c390] __list_add+0xb0/0x150 LR [c00000000043c38c] __list_add+0xac/0x150 Call Trace: __list_add+0xac/0x150 (unreliable) __down+0x4c/0xf8 down+0x68/0x70 xfs_buf_lock+0x4c/0x150 [xfs] list_add attempted on force-poisoned entry(0000000000000500), new->next == d0000000059ecdb0, new->prev == 0000000000000500 WARNING: at lib/list_debug.c:33 [..] NIP [c00000000042db78] __list_add+0xa8/0x140 LR [c00000000042db74] __list_add+0xa4/0x140 Call Trace: __list_add+0xa4/0x140 (unreliable) rwsem_down_read_failed+0x6c/0x1a0 down_read+0x58/0x60 xfs_log_commit_cil+0x7c/0x600 [xfs] Fixes: commit 5c2c2587b132 ("mm, dax, pmem: introduce {get|put}_dev_pagemap() for dax-gup") Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Reported-by: Eryu Guan <eguan@redhat.com> Tested-by: Eryu Guan <eguan@redhat.com> Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/list_debug.c9
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/lib/list_debug.c b/lib/list_debug.c
index 3345a089ef7b..3859bf63561c 100644
--- a/lib/list_debug.c
+++ b/lib/list_debug.c
@@ -12,13 +12,6 @@
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/rculist.h>
-static struct list_head force_poison;
-void list_force_poison(struct list_head *entry)
-{
- entry->next = &force_poison;
- entry->prev = &force_poison;
-}
-
/*
* Insert a new entry between two known consecutive entries.
*
@@ -30,8 +23,6 @@ void __list_add(struct list_head *new,
struct list_head *prev,
struct list_head *next)
{
- WARN(new->next == &force_poison || new->prev == &force_poison,
- "list_add attempted on force-poisoned entry\n");
WARN(next->prev != prev,
"list_add corruption. next->prev should be "
"prev (%p), but was %p. (next=%p).\n",