From: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2025 08:53:08 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: bpf: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq
X-Git-Tag: v6.18-rc1~175^2~55^2~1
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0409819a002165e9471113598323eb72bba17a53;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git

bpf: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq

Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use
again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.

This lack of consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.

system_unbound_wq should be the default workqueue so as not to enforce
locality constraints for random work whenever it's not required.

Adding system_dfl_wq to encourage its use when unbound work should be used.

queue_work() / queue_delayed_work() / mod_delayed_work() will now use the
new unbound wq: whether the user still use the old wq a warn will be
printed along with a wq redirect to the new one.

The old system_unbound_wq will be kept for a few release cycles.

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250905085309.94596-3-marco.crivellari@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
---

diff --git a/kernel/bpf/helpers.c b/kernel/bpf/helpers.c
index 588bc7e364367..1ef1e65bd7d0e 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/helpers.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/helpers.c
@@ -1594,7 +1594,7 @@ void bpf_timer_cancel_and_free(void *val)
 	 * timer callback.
 	 */
 	if (this_cpu_read(hrtimer_running)) {
-		queue_work(system_unbound_wq, &t->cb.delete_work);
+		queue_work(system_dfl_wq, &t->cb.delete_work);
 		return;
 	}
 
@@ -1607,7 +1607,7 @@ void bpf_timer_cancel_and_free(void *val)
 		if (hrtimer_try_to_cancel(&t->timer) >= 0)
 			kfree_rcu(t, cb.rcu);
 		else
-			queue_work(system_unbound_wq, &t->cb.delete_work);
+			queue_work(system_dfl_wq, &t->cb.delete_work);
 	} else {
 		bpf_timer_delete_work(&t->cb.delete_work);
 	}
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c b/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c
index 889374722d0aa..bd45dda9dc354 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/memalloc.c
@@ -736,7 +736,7 @@ static void destroy_mem_alloc(struct bpf_mem_alloc *ma, int rcu_in_progress)
 	/* Defer barriers into worker to let the rest of map memory to be freed */
 	memset(ma, 0, sizeof(*ma));
 	INIT_WORK(&copy->work, free_mem_alloc_deferred);
-	queue_work(system_unbound_wq, &copy->work);
+	queue_work(system_dfl_wq, &copy->work);
 }
 
 void bpf_mem_alloc_destroy(struct bpf_mem_alloc *ma)
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
index 0fbfa8532c392..3f178a0f8eb12 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
+++ b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c
@@ -905,7 +905,7 @@ static void bpf_map_free_in_work(struct bpf_map *map)
 	/* Avoid spawning kworkers, since they all might contend
 	 * for the same mutex like slab_mutex.
 	 */
-	queue_work(system_unbound_wq, &map->work);
+	queue_work(system_dfl_wq, &map->work);
 }
 
 static void bpf_map_free_rcu_gp(struct rcu_head *rcu)