If we can find a valid worker that is serving the specified work at the moment then the worker itself is enough to ensure reentrance and workqueue doesn't matter here because it is permitted for a work to requeue itself either on different cpu or numa node or even on another workqueue. Fixes: c9178087acd7 ("workqueue: perform non-reentrancy test when queueing to unbound workqueues too") Fixes: 18aa9effad4a ("workqueue: implement WQ_NON_REENTRANT") Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <hdanton@xxxxxxxx> --- --- f/kernel/workqueue.c +++ g/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -1433,7 +1433,7 @@ retry: worker = find_worker_executing_work(last_pool, work); - if (worker && worker->current_pwq->wq == wq) { + if (worker) { pwq = worker->current_pwq; } else { /* meh... not running there, queue here */