Hi, Tejun.
2014-04-15 23:43 GMT+09:00 Tejun Heo <[email protected]>:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 08:17:43AM +0900, Daeseok Youn wrote:
>>
>> Use default pwq when alloc_unbound_pwq() is failed.
>>
>> And remove "if" condition for whether "pwq" is same as "wq->dfl_pwq"
>> when wq_calc_node_cpumask() returns false and just use "goto use_dfl_pwq"
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Daeseok Youn <[email protected]>
>
> This is an awfully inadequate patch description. Can you change it to
> something like the following?
OK. I will change the patch description as your comment.
>
> workqueue: fix bugs in wq_update_unbound_numa() failure path
>
> wq_update_unbound_numa() failure path has the following two bugs.
>
> * alloc_unbound_pwq() is called without holding wq->mutex; however, if
> the allocation fails, it jumps to out_unlock which tries to unlock
> wq->mutex.
>
> * The function should switch to dfl_pwq on failure but didn't do so
> after alloc_unbound_pwq() failure.
>
> Fix it by regrabbing wq->mutex and jumping to use_dfl_pwq on
> alloc_unbound_pwq() failure.
>
>
>> diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
>> index 0ee63af..0679854 100644
>> --- a/kernel/workqueue.c
>> +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
>> @@ -4087,10 +4087,7 @@ static void wq_update_unbound_numa(struct
>> workqueue_struct *wq, int cpu,
>> if (cpumask_equal(cpumask, pwq->pool->attrs->cpumask))
>> goto out_unlock;
>> } else {
>> - if (pwq == wq->dfl_pwq)
>> - goto out_unlock;
>> - else
>> - goto use_dfl_pwq;
>> + goto use_dfl_pwq;
>
> And please put this in a separate patch. Patches which are to be
> backported through -stable should be minimal. Also, please update the
> comment above to reflect the change.
Yes, I will do.
Thanks for review.
Regards,
Daeseok Youn.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> tejun
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