On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 03:11:35PM +0800, Michael Wang wrote: > get_work_pwq() is possible to return NULL, add a check point for that in > the context inside pwq_activate_delayed_work(). > > CC: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org> > Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wang...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > --- > kernel/workqueue.c | 1 + > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c > index ee8e29a..ea2ec38 100644 > --- a/kernel/workqueue.c > +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c > @@ -1072,6 +1072,7 @@ static void put_pwq_unlocked(struct pool_workqueue *pwq) > static void pwq_activate_delayed_work(struct work_struct *work) > { > struct pool_workqueue *pwq = get_work_pwq(work); > + BUG_ON(!pwq);
pwq deref right below is gonna crash anyway and it's not like that crash is gonna difficult to identify. How is this an improvement? Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/