This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled workqueue: Don't call cpumask_test_cpu() with -1 CPU in wq_update_node_max_active() to the 6.6-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: workqueue-don-t-call-cpumask_test_cpu-with-1-cpu-in-.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit e7538d7f19aafa6680f69cfe66b8dbc9990d853f Author: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jan 30 18:55:55 2024 -1000 workqueue: Don't call cpumask_test_cpu() with -1 CPU in wq_update_node_max_active() [ Upstream commit 15930da42f8981dc42c19038042947b475b19f47 ] For wq_update_node_max_active(), @off_cpu of -1 indicates that no CPU is going down. The function was incorrectly calling cpumask_test_cpu() with -1 CPU leading to oopses like the following on some archs: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff0002100296e0 .. pc : wq_update_node_max_active+0x50/0x1fc lr : wq_update_node_max_active+0x1f0/0x1fc ... Call trace: wq_update_node_max_active+0x50/0x1fc apply_wqattrs_commit+0xf0/0x114 apply_workqueue_attrs_locked+0x58/0xa0 alloc_workqueue+0x5ac/0x774 workqueue_init_early+0x460/0x540 start_kernel+0x258/0x684 __primary_switched+0xb8/0xc0 Code: 9100a273 35000d01 53067f00 d0016dc1 (f8607a60) ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! ]--- Fix it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/91eacde0-df99-4d5c-a980-91046f66e612@xxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 5797b1c18919 ("workqueue: Implement system-wide nr_active enforcement for unbound workqueues") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c index b2975e44dffa9..7d231bbd16593 100644 --- a/kernel/workqueue.c +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -1500,7 +1500,7 @@ static void wq_update_node_max_active(struct workqueue_struct *wq, int off_cpu) lockdep_assert_held(&wq->mutex); - if (!cpumask_test_cpu(off_cpu, effective)) + if (off_cpu >= 0 && !cpumask_test_cpu(off_cpu, effective)) off_cpu = -1; total_cpus = cpumask_weight_and(effective, cpu_online_mask);