dd6c3c544126 ("workqueue: Move pwq_dec_nr_in_flight() to the end of work item handling") relocated pwq_dec_nr_in_flight() after set_work_pool_and_keep_pending(). However, the latter destroys information contained in work->data that's needed by pwq_dec_nr_in_flight() including the flush color. With flush color destroyed, flush_workqueue() can stall easily when mixed with cancel_work*() usages. This is easily triggered by running xfstests generic/001 test on xfs: INFO: task umount:6305 blocked for more than 122 seconds. ... task:umount state:D stack:13008 pid:6305 tgid:6305 ppid:6301 flags:0x00004000 Call Trace: <TASK> __schedule+0x2f6/0xa20 schedule+0x36/0xb0 schedule_timeout+0x20b/0x280 wait_for_completion+0x8a/0x140 __flush_workqueue+0x11a/0x3b0 xfs_inodegc_flush+0x24/0xf0 xfs_unmountfs+0x14/0x180 xfs_fs_put_super+0x3d/0x90 generic_shutdown_super+0x7c/0x160 kill_block_super+0x1b/0x40 xfs_kill_sb+0x12/0x30 deactivate_locked_super+0x35/0x90 deactivate_super+0x42/0x50 cleanup_mnt+0x109/0x170 __cleanup_mnt+0x12/0x20 task_work_run+0x60/0x90 syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x146/0x150 do_syscall_64+0x5d/0x110 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6c/0x74 Fix it by stashing work_data before calling set_work_pool_and_keep_pending() and using the stashed value for pwq_dec_nr_in_flight(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87o7cxeehy.fsf@debian-BULLSEYE-live-builder-AMD64 Fixes: dd6c3c544126 ("workqueue: Move pwq_dec_nr_in_flight() to the end of work item handling") --- Hello, Chandan. Thanks a lot for the report. I could reproduce the problem and verified that this patch fixes the issue. I'm applying this to wq/for-6.9 but would really appreciate if you could confirm the fix. Thanks. kernel/workqueue.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c index ffb625db9771..55c9816506b0 100644 --- a/kernel/workqueue.c +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -1999,6 +1999,8 @@ static int try_to_grab_pending(struct work_struct *work, bool is_dwork, */ pwq = get_work_pwq(work); if (pwq && pwq->pool == pool) { + unsigned long work_data; + debug_work_deactivate(work); /* @@ -2016,11 +2018,15 @@ static int try_to_grab_pending(struct work_struct *work, bool is_dwork, list_del_init(&work->entry); - /* work->data points to pwq iff queued, point to pool */ + /* + * work->data points to pwq iff queued. Let's point to pool. As + * this destroys work->data needed by the next step, stash it. + */ + work_data = *work_data_bits(work); set_work_pool_and_keep_pending(work, pool->id); /* must be the last step, see the function comment */ - pwq_dec_nr_in_flight(pwq, *work_data_bits(work)); + pwq_dec_nr_in_flight(pwq, work_data); raw_spin_unlock(&pool->lock); rcu_read_unlock();