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workqueue: Fix pwq ref leak in rescuer_thread()
authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:59:15 +0000 (06:59 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 19:07:44 +0000 (20:07 +0100)
commit0da808f7cf7db5fdd5791d1d6cd71fb6b4370af2
tree049116b8062adebda73acc306063e42cae61238c
parent646190c012895ba31347f1fd9fe8c0d3ae408973
workqueue: Fix pwq ref leak in rescuer_thread()

commit e66b39af00f426b3356b96433d620cb3367ba1ff upstream.

008847f66c3 ("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: Tejun 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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/workqueue.c