[PATCH 1/1] scsi: virtio_scsi: move INIT_WORK calls to virtscsi_init

From: Joshua Daley

Date: Thu Feb 26 2026 - 15:44:18 EST


The last step of virtscsi_handle_event is to call virtscsi_kick_event,
which calls INIT_WORK on it's own work item. INIT_WORK resets the
work item's data bits to 0.

If this occurs while the work item is being flushed by
cancel_work_sync, then kernel/workqueue.c/work_offqd_enable triggers a
kernel warning, as it expects the "disable" bit to be 1:

[ 21.450115] workqueue: work disable count underflowed
[ 21.450117] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 56 at kernel/workqueue.c:4328 enable_work+0x10a/0x120
...
[ 21.450171] Call Trace:
[ 21.450173] [<000003db2e5bdc3e>] enable_work+0x10e/0x120
[ 21.450176] ([<000003db2e5bdc3a>] enable_work+0x10a/0x120)
[ 21.450178] [<000003db2e5bdd86>] cancel_work_sync+0x86/0xa0
[ 21.450181] [<000003daae97d9e4>] virtscsi_remove+0xb4/0xd0 [virtio_scsi]
[ 21.450184] [<000003db2ef3b5ca>] virtio_dev_remove+0x6a/0xd0
[ 21.450186] [<000003db2ef9106c>] device_release_driver_internal+0x1ac/0x260
[ 21.450190] [<000003db2ef8edc8>] bus_remove_device+0xf8/0x190
[ 21.450192] [<000003db2ef88d72>] device_del+0x142/0x340
[ 21.450194] [<000003db2ef88fa0>] device_unregister+0x30/0xa0
[ 21.450196] [<000003db2ef3b2fa>] unregister_virtio_device+0x2a/0x40

This warning may occur if a controller is detached immediately
following a disk detach.

Move the INIT_WORK call to prevent this. Don't re-init event list
work items in virtscsi_kick_event, init them only once in
virtscsi_init instead.

Signed-off-by: Joshua Daley <jdaley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c b/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c
index 0ed8558dad72..173092931df6 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/virtio_scsi.c
@@ -242,7 +242,6 @@ static int virtscsi_kick_event(struct virtio_scsi *vscsi,
struct scatterlist sg;
unsigned long flags;

- INIT_WORK(&event_node->work, virtscsi_handle_event);
sg_init_one(&sg, event_node->event, sizeof(struct virtio_scsi_event));

spin_lock_irqsave(&vscsi->event_vq.vq_lock, flags);
@@ -898,6 +897,11 @@ static int virtscsi_init(struct virtio_device *vdev,
virtscsi_config_set(vdev, cdb_size, VIRTIO_SCSI_CDB_SIZE);
virtscsi_config_set(vdev, sense_size, VIRTIO_SCSI_SENSE_SIZE);

+ if (virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_SCSI_F_HOTPLUG)) {
+ for (i = 0; i < VIRTIO_SCSI_EVENT_LEN; i++)
+ INIT_WORK(&vscsi->event_list[i].work, virtscsi_handle_event);
+ }
+
err = 0;

out:
--
2.34.1