Before the rescuer is picked to running, the works of the @pwq may be processed by some other workers, and destroy_workqueue() may called at the same time. This may result a nasty situation that rescuer may exit with non-empty mayday list.
It is no harm currently, destroy_workqueue() can safely to free them all(workqueue&pwqs) togerther, since the rescuer is stopped. No rescuer nor mayday-timer can access the mayday list. But it is nasty and error-prone in future development. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <la...@cn.fujitsu.com> --- kernel/workqueue.c | 21 +++++++++++++++------ 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c index 0ee63af..7539244 100644 --- a/kernel/workqueue.c +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -2398,6 +2398,7 @@ static int rescuer_thread(void *__rescuer) struct worker *rescuer = __rescuer; struct workqueue_struct *wq = rescuer->rescue_wq; struct list_head *scheduled = &rescuer->scheduled; + bool should_stop; set_user_nice(current, RESCUER_NICE_LEVEL); @@ -2408,12 +2409,14 @@ static int rescuer_thread(void *__rescuer) rescuer->task->flags |= PF_WQ_WORKER; repeat: set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); - - if (kthread_should_stop()) { - __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); - rescuer->task->flags &= ~PF_WQ_WORKER; - return 0; - } + /* + * When the rescuer is requested to stop, the workqueue has no + * work pending, but wq->maydays may still have pwq(s) queued. + * This can happend when some other workers process all works + * before this rescuer is scheduled. The rescuer must process + * all pwq(s) before exit. + */ + should_stop = kthread_should_stop(); /* see whether any pwq is asking for help */ spin_lock_irq(&wq_mayday_lock); @@ -2459,6 +2462,12 @@ repeat: spin_unlock_irq(&wq_mayday_lock); + if (should_stop) { + __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); + rescuer->task->flags &= ~PF_WQ_WORKER; + return 0; + } + /* rescuers should never participate in concurrency management */ WARN_ON_ONCE(!(rescuer->flags & WORKER_NOT_RUNNING)); schedule(); -- 1.7.4.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/