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authorLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>2014-04-18 11:04:16 -0400
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2014-04-18 11:04:16 -0400
commit4d595b866d2c653dc90a492b9973a834eabfa354 (patch)
tree6b9a9af0eb01436a3967eff0a5c916e80cf0ef5f /kernel
parent77f300b198f93328c26191b52655ce1b62e202cf (diff)
downloadlinux-4d595b866d2c653dc90a492b9973a834eabfa354.tar.bz2
workqueue: make rescuer_thread() empty wq->maydays list before exiting
After a @pwq is scheduled for emergency execution, other workers may consume the affectd work items before the rescuer gets to them. This means that a workqueue many have pwqs queued on @wq->maydays list while not having any work item pending or in-flight. If destroy_workqueue() executes in such condition, the rescuer may exit without emptying @wq->maydays. This currently doesn't cause any actual harm. destroy_workqueue() can safely destroy all the involved data structures whether @wq->maydays is populated or not as nobody access the list once the rescuer exits. However, this is nasty and makes future development difficult. Let's update rescuer_thread() so that it empties @wq->maydays after seeing should_stop to guarantee that the list is empty on rescuer exit. tj: Updated comment and patch description. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.10+
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/workqueue.c21
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 3150b217c936..6ba0c6054224 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);
@@ -2409,11 +2410,15 @@ static int rescuer_thread(void *__rescuer)
repeat:
set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
- if (kthread_should_stop()) {
- __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
- rescuer->task->flags &= ~PF_WQ_WORKER;
- return 0;
- }
+ /*
+ * By the time the rescuer is requested to stop, the workqueue
+ * shouldn't have any work pending, but @wq->maydays may still have
+ * pwq(s) queued. This can happen by non-rescuer workers consuming
+ * all the work items before the rescuer got to them. Go through
+ * @wq->maydays processing before acting on should_stop so that the
+ * list is always empty on exit.
+ */
+ should_stop = kthread_should_stop();
/* see whether any pwq is asking for help */
spin_lock_irq(&wq_mayday_lock);
@@ -2459,6 +2464,12 @@ 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();