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Paul E. McKenney
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If someone fails to drain the corresponding SRCU callbacks (for example, by failing to invoke srcu_barrier()) before invoking either cleanup_srcu_struct() or cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced(), the resulting diagnostic is an ambiguous use-after-free diagnostic, and even then only if you are running something like KASAN. This commit therefore improves SRCU diagnostics by adding checks for in-flight callbacks at _cleanup_srcu_struct() time. Note that these diagnostics can still be defeated, for example, by invoking call_srcu() concurrently with cleanup_srcu_struct(). Which is a really bad idea, but sometimes all too easy to do. But even then, these diagnostics have at least some probability of catching the problem. Reported-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> Tested-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
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