The patch titled Subject: kthread: work could not be queued when worker being destroyed has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is kthread-work-could-not-be-queued-when-worker-being-destroyed.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/kthread-work-could-not-be-queued-when-worker-being-destroyed.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/kthread-work-could-not-be-queued-when-worker-being-destroyed.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Zhang Qiang <qiang.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: kthread: work could not be queued when worker being destroyed The "queuing_blocked" func should print warning message and returns true when the worker being destroyed. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200702070156.5862-1-qiang.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Zhang Qiang <qiang.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/kthread.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/kernel/kthread.c~kthread-work-could-not-be-queued-when-worker-being-destroyed +++ a/kernel/kthread.c @@ -814,6 +814,9 @@ static inline bool queuing_blocked(struc { lockdep_assert_held(&worker->lock); + if (WARN_ON(!worker->task)) + return true; + return !list_empty(&work->node) || work->canceling; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from qiang.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are kthread-work-could-not-be-queued-when-worker-being-destroyed.patch