This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled dm: remove flush_scheduled_work() during local_exit() to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: dm-remove-flush_scheduled_work-during-local_exit.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 1db59f1bff5387206580fd6f9c1d4aa61ab15db2 Author: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Feb 14 13:06:05 2023 -0500 dm: remove flush_scheduled_work() during local_exit() [ Upstream commit 0b22ff5360f5c4e11050b89206370fdf7dc0a226 ] Commit acfe0ad74d2e1 ("dm: allocate a special workqueue for deferred device removal") switched from using system workqueue to a single workqueue local to DM. But it didn't eliminate the call to flush_scheduled_work() that was introduced purely for the benefit of deferred device removal with commit 2c140a246dc ("dm: allow remove to be deferred"). Since DM core uses its own workqueue (and queue_work) there is no need to call flush_scheduled_work() from local_exit(). local_exit()'s destroy_workqueue(deferred_remove_workqueue) handles flushing work started with queue_work(). Fixes: acfe0ad74d2e1 ("dm: allocate a special workqueue for deferred device removal") Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c index 1005abf768609..7163ecc4d53fa 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm.c @@ -265,7 +265,6 @@ static int __init local_init(void) static void local_exit(void) { - flush_scheduled_work(); destroy_workqueue(deferred_remove_workqueue); unregister_blkdev(_major, _name);