Hello! This is an experimental automated report about issues detected by Coverity from a scan of next-20191025 as part of the linux-next weekly scan project: https://scan.coverity.com/projects/linux-next-weekly-scan You're getting this email because you were associated with the identified lines of code (noted below) that were touched by recent commits: 46134db8fdc5 ("io-wq: small threadpool implementation for io_uring") Coverity reported the following: *** CID 1487365: Program hangs (LOCK) /fs/io-wq.c: 349 in io_wqe_worker() 343 io_worker_handle_work(worker); 344 else 345 spin_unlock(&wqe->lock); 346 } 347 348 io_worker_exit(worker); vvv CID 1487365: Program hangs (LOCK) vvv Returning without unlocking "(*wqe).lock". 349 return 0; 350 } 351 352 /* 353 * Check head of free list for an available worker. If one isn't available, 354 * caller must wake up the wq manager to create one. If this is a false positive, please let us know so we can mark it as such, or teach the Coverity rules to be smarter. If not, please make sure fixes get into linux-next. :) For patches fixing this, please include: Reported-by: coverity-bot <keescook+coverity-bot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1487365 ("Program hangs") Fixes: 46134db8fdc5 ("io-wq: small threadpool implementation for io_uring") Thanks for your attention! -- Coverity-bot