Re: mod_delayed_work() explosion due to 874bbfe6

[Michal Hocko]

On Tue 02-02-16 15:44:24, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> Hi Tejun,
> 
> I'm looking at a crash analysis that fingers 874bbfe6 as being the
> culprit.  (I didn't do the analysis, but it appears to be correct)
> 
> Scenario: CPU168 calls mod_delayed_work(), is taken offline before the
> timer expires.  Due to 874bbfe6, dwork->cpu is the now offline CPU168
> vs the previous WORK_CPU_UNBOUND, timer fires on CPU131, it tries to
> __queue_work() with cpu == the now offline CPU168, gets to...
> 
>         } else
>                 pwq = unbound_pwq_by_node(wq, cpu_to_node(cpu));
> 
> ... and goes boom.
> 
> <snippet>
> crash> p numa_node | grep 168
>   [168]: ffff8c03fdf0e328
> crash> rd ffff8c03fdf0e328
> ffff8c03fdf0e328:  00000000ffffffff                    ........
> 
> Thus, pwq becomes 000000000. Then, as the result of reference to
> pwq->pool, NULL reference occurs at (*PANIC).
> </snippet>
> 
> What if anything is supposed to prevent this?

AFAICS [1] nothing...

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[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160203122855.GB6762@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs