On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 11:32:28AM -0700, Benjamin Segall wrote: > autoremove_wake_function uses list_del_init_careful, so should epoll's > more aggressive variant. It only doesn't because it was copied from an > older wait.c rather than the most recent. > > Fixes: a16ceb139610 ("epoll: autoremove wakers even more aggressively") > Signed-off-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > --- > fs/eventpoll.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c > index 52954d4637b5..081df056398a 100644 > --- a/fs/eventpoll.c > +++ b/fs/eventpoll.c > @@ -1756,11 +1756,11 @@ static struct timespec64 *ep_timeout_to_timespec(struct timespec64 *to, long ms) > static int ep_autoremove_wake_function(struct wait_queue_entry *wq_entry, > unsigned int mode, int sync, void *key) > { > int ret = default_wake_function(wq_entry, mode, sync, key); > > - list_del_init(&wq_entry->entry); > + list_del_init_careful(&wq_entry->entry); > return ret; > } Can you please provide a more detailed explanation about why list_del_init_careful() is needed here? - Eric