srcu: Check for readers at module-exit time

If a given statically allocated in-module srcu_struct structure was ever
used for updates, srcu_module_going() will invoke cleanup_srcu_struct()
at module-exit time.  This will check for the error case of SRCU readers
persisting past module-exit time.  On the other hand, if this srcu_struct
structure never went through a grace period, srcu_module_going() only
invokes free_percpu(), which would result in strange failures if SRCU
readers persisted past module-exit time.

This commit therefore adds a srcu_readers_active() check to
srcu_module_going(), splatting if readers have persisted and refraining
from invoking free_percpu() in that case.  Better to leak memory than
to suffer silent memory corruption!

[ paulmck: Apply Zhang, Qiang1 feedback on memory leak. ]

Tested-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
index 169a6513b73979ca9bd2baac92eba9f932642a79..f9dd6ed5503ef22834a95ef4fba8f0753d1bb550 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
@@ -1911,7 +1911,8 @@ static void srcu_module_going(struct module *mod)
                if (!rcu_seq_state(smp_load_acquire(&ssp->srcu_sup->srcu_gp_seq_needed)) &&
                    !WARN_ON_ONCE(!ssp->srcu_sup->sda_is_static))
                        cleanup_srcu_struct(ssp);
-               free_percpu(ssp->sda);
+               if (!WARN_ON(srcu_readers_active(ssp)))
+                       free_percpu(ssp->sda);
        }
 }