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From: Lai Jiangshan
Date: Wed Apr 03 2013 - 22:05:38 EST


destroy_workqueue() performs several sanity checks before proceeding
with destruction of a workqueue. One of the checks verifies that
refcnt of each pwq (pool_workqueue) is over 1 as at that point there
should be no in-flight work items and the only holder of pwq refs is
the workqueue itself.

This worked fine as a workqueue used to hold only one reference to its
pwqs; however, since 4c16bd327c ("workqueue: implement NUMA affinity
for unbound workqueues"), a workqueue may hold multiple references to
its default pwq triggering this sanity check spuriously.

Fix it by not triggering the pwq->refcnt assertion on default pwqs.

An example spurious WARN trigger follows.

WARNING: at kernel/workqueue.c:4201 destroy_workqueue+0x6a/0x13e()
Hardware name: 4286C12
Modules linked in: sdhci_pci sdhci mmc_core usb_storage i915 drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit i2c_core video
Pid: 361, comm: umount Not tainted 3.9.0-rc5+ #29
Call Trace:
[<c04314a7>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7c/0x93
[<c04314e0>] warn_slowpath_null+0x22/0x24
[<c044796a>] destroy_workqueue+0x6a/0x13e
[<c056dc01>] ext4_put_super+0x43/0x2c4
[<c04fb7b8>] generic_shutdown_super+0x4b/0xb9
[<c04fb848>] kill_block_super+0x22/0x60
[<c04fb960>] deactivate_locked_super+0x2f/0x56
[<c04fc41b>] deactivate_super+0x2e/0x31
[<c050f1e6>] mntput_no_expire+0x103/0x108
[<c050fdce>] sys_umount+0x2a2/0x2c4
[<c050fe0e>] sys_oldumount+0x1e/0x20
[<c085ba4d>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x38

tj: Rewrote description.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Applied to wq/for-3.10.

Thanks.

kernel/workqueue.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index dd2a4c4..c273376 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -4201,7 +4201,7 @@ void destroy_workqueue(struct workqueue_struct *wq)
}
}

- if (WARN_ON(pwq->refcnt > 1) ||
+ if (WARN_ON((pwq != wq->dfl_pwq) && (pwq->refcnt > 1)) ||
WARN_ON(pwq->nr_active) ||
WARN_ON(!list_empty(&pwq->delayed_works))) {
mutex_unlock(&wq->mutex);
--
1.8.1.4

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