Re: [PATCH] workqueue: fix duplicate wq_update_pod_attrs_buf allocation

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 8:05 PM John Ogness <john.ogness@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> One of the hunks for the patch resulting in
> commit 84193c07105c ("workqueue: Generalize unbound CPU pods") was
> applied incorrectly. This resulted in @wq_update_pod_attrs_buf
> being allocated twice.
>
> From the kmemleak detector:
>
> unreferenced object 0xc0000000040074c0 (size 64):
>   comm "swapper/0", pid 0, jiffies 4294937296 (age 1936.580s)
>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03  ................
>     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>   backtrace:
>     [<0000000076b83a6e>] .kmalloc_trace+0x54/0x190
>     [<00000000898f2356>] .alloc_workqueue_attrs+0x2c/0x60
>     [<0000000063365e1f>] .workqueue_init_early+0xe4/0x4b8
>     [<00000000ca97ff39>] .start_kernel+0x8d0/0xba4
>     [<000000002ee12080>] start_here_common+0x1c/0x20
>
> Remove the redundant allocation.
>
> Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Stephen posted a similar patch before:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230905174935.2d75feab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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