On 5/1/18 4:14 PM, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
>>From 1b90d7f71d60e743c69cdff3ba41edd1f9f86f93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 07:07:55 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH v2] bdi: wake up concurrent wb_shutdown() callers.
>
> syzbot is reporting hung tasks at wait_on_bit(WB_shutting_down) in
> wb_shutdown() [1]. This seems to be because commit 5318ce7d46866e1d ("bdi:
> Shutdown writeback on all cgwbs in cgwb_bdi_destroy()") forgot to call
> wake_up_bit(WB_shutting_down) after clear_bit(WB_shutting_down).
>
> Introduce a helper function clear_and_wake_up_bit() and use it, in order
> to avoid similar errors in future.
Queued up, thanks Tetsuo!
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Jens Axboe
