Commit aa8bff63 authored by Tejun Heo's avatar Tejun Heo Committed by Kleber Sacilotto de Souza

workqueue: Fix pwq ref leak in rescuer_thread()

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1858489

commit e66b39af upstream.

008847f6 ("workqueue: allow rescuer thread to do more work.") made
the rescuer worker requeue the pwq immediately if there may be more
work items which need rescuing instead of waiting for the next mayday
timer expiration.  Unfortunately, it doesn't check whether the pwq is
already on the mayday list and unconditionally gets the ref and moves
it onto the list.  This doesn't corrupt the list but creates an
additional reference to the pwq.  It got queued twice but will only be
removed once.

This leak later can trigger pwq refcnt warning on workqueue
destruction and prevent freeing of the workqueue.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "Williams, Gerald S" <gerald.s.williams@intel.com>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.19+
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarConnor Kuehl <connor.kuehl@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
parent b65a91aa
......@@ -2308,8 +2308,14 @@ static int rescuer_thread(void *__rescuer)
*/
if (need_to_create_worker(pool)) {
spin_lock(&wq_mayday_lock);
get_pwq(pwq);
list_move_tail(&pwq->mayday_node, &wq->maydays);
/*
* Queue iff we aren't racing destruction
* and somebody else hasn't queued it already.
*/
if (wq->rescuer && list_empty(&pwq->mayday_node)) {
get_pwq(pwq);
list_add_tail(&pwq->mayday_node, &wq->maydays);
}
spin_unlock(&wq_mayday_lock);
}
}
......@@ -4276,7 +4282,8 @@ static void show_pwq(struct pool_workqueue *pwq)
pr_info(" pwq %d:", pool->id);
pr_cont_pool_info(pool);
pr_cont(" active=%d/%d%s\n", pwq->nr_active, pwq->max_active,
pr_cont(" active=%d/%d refcnt=%d%s\n",
pwq->nr_active, pwq->max_active, pwq->refcnt,
!list_empty(&pwq->mayday_node) ? " MAYDAY" : "");
hash_for_each(pool->busy_hash, bkt, worker, hentry) {
......
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