Re: WARNING in check_flush_dependency

[Johannes Berg]

On Mon, 2018-01-22 at 23:39 -0800, syzbot wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> syzbot hit the following crash on upstream commit
> 0d665e7b109d512b7cae3ccef6e8654714887844 (Fri Jan 19 12:49:24 2018 +0000)
> mm, page_vma_mapped: Drop faulty pointer arithmetics in check_pte()
> 
> So far this crash happened 23 times on net-next, upstream.
> C reproducer is attached.
> syzkaller reproducer is attached.
> Raw console output is attached.
> compiler: gcc (GCC) 7.1.1 20170620
> .config is attached.
> user-space arch: i386
> 
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> Reported-by: syzbot+41cdaf4232c50e658934@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> workqueue: WQ_MEM_RECLAIM hwsim_wq:destroy_radio is  
> flushing !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM events_highpri:flush_backlog
> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 3706 at kernel/workqueue.c:2439  
> check_flush_dependency+0x239/0x380 kernel/workqueue.c:2435
> Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ...

Yeah, we clearly shouldn't have WQ_RECLAIM set on this workqueue...

johannes