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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2019-09-25 06:59:15 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-12-17 20:39:26 +0100
commit9e0f33da9079a3e4e3acd5bdf163963b901d8484 (patch)
tree9a724373f6afae8d6e54bee3c75601c03703b1ef /kernel
parent05905c2f2123a80dd8bdeee7f3178303ec97d08f (diff)
workqueue: Fix pwq ref leak in rescuer_thread()
commit e66b39af00f426b3356b96433d620cb3367ba1ff upstream. 008847f66c3 ("workqueue: allow rescuer thread to do more work.") made the rescuer worker requeue the pwq immediately if there may be more work items which need rescuing instead of waiting for the next mayday timer expiration. Unfortunately, it doesn't check whether the pwq is already on the mayday list and unconditionally gets the ref and moves it onto the list. This doesn't corrupt the list but creates an additional reference to the pwq. It got queued twice but will only be removed once. This leak later can trigger pwq refcnt warning on workqueue destruction and prevent freeing of the workqueue. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "Williams, Gerald S" <gerald.s.williams@intel.com> Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.19+ Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/workqueue.c13
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 7d51ef56882b..183ddc34fd54 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -2366,8 +2366,14 @@ repeat:
*/
if (need_to_create_worker(pool)) {
spin_lock(&wq_mayday_lock);
- get_pwq(pwq);
- list_move_tail(&pwq->mayday_node, &wq->maydays);
+ /*
+ * Queue iff we aren't racing destruction
+ * and somebody else hasn't queued it already.
+ */
+ if (wq->rescuer && list_empty(&pwq->mayday_node)) {
+ get_pwq(pwq);
+ list_add_tail(&pwq->mayday_node, &wq->maydays);
+ }
spin_unlock(&wq_mayday_lock);
}
}
@@ -4413,7 +4419,8 @@ static void show_pwq(struct pool_workqueue *pwq)
pr_info(" pwq %d:", pool->id);
pr_cont_pool_info(pool);
- pr_cont(" active=%d/%d%s\n", pwq->nr_active, pwq->max_active,
+ pr_cont(" active=%d/%d refcnt=%d%s\n",
+ pwq->nr_active, pwq->max_active, pwq->refcnt,
!list_empty(&pwq->mayday_node) ? " MAYDAY" : "");
hash_for_each(pool->busy_hash, bkt, worker, hentry) {