4.2.8-ckt5 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit d6e022f1d207a161cd88e08ef0371554680ffc46 upstream.
When looking up the pool_workqueue to use for an unbound workqueue,
workqueue assumes that the target CPU is always bound to a valid NUMA
node. However, currently, when a CPU goes offline, the mapping is
destroyed and cpu_to_node() returns NUMA_NO_NODE.
This has always been broken but hasn't triggered often enough before
874bbfe600a6 ("workqueue: make sure delayed work run in local cpu").
After the commit, workqueue forcifully assigns the local CPU for
delayed work items without explicit target CPU to fix a different
issue. This widens the window where CPU can go offline while a
delayed work item is pending causing delayed work items dispatched
with target CPU set to an already offlined CPU. The resulting
NUMA_NO_NODE mapping makes workqueue try to queue the work item on a
NULL pool_workqueue and thus crash.
While 874bbfe600a6 has been reverted for a different reason making the
bug less visible again, it can still happen. Fix it by mapping
NUMA_NO_NODE to the default pool_workqueue from unbound_pwq_by_node().
This is a temporary workaround. The long term solution is keeping CPU
-> NODE mapping stable across CPU off/online cycles which is being
worked on.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/1454424264.11183.46.camel@xxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/1453702100-2597-1-git-send-email-tangchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/workqueue.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index a413acb..c743abf 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -568,6 +568,16 @@ static struct pool_workqueue *unbound_pwq_by_node(struct workqueue_struct *wq,
int node)
{
assert_rcu_or_wq_mutex_or_pool_mutex(wq);
+
+ /*
+ * XXX: @node can be NUMA_NO_NODE if CPU goes offline while a
+ * delayed item is pending. The plan is to keep CPU -> NODE
+ * mapping valid and stable across CPU on/offlines. Once that
+ * happens, this workaround can be removed.
+ */
+ if (unlikely(node == NUMA_NO_NODE))
+ return wq->dfl_pwq;
+
return rcu_dereference_raw(wq->numa_pwq_tbl[node]);
}
--
2.7.0
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