From: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 6993d0fdbee0eb38bfac350aa016f65ad11ed3b1 upstream. There is a small race window when a delayed work is being canceled and the work still might be queued from the timer_fn: CPU0 CPU1 kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync() __kthread_cancel_work_sync() __kthread_cancel_work() work->canceling++; kthread_delayed_work_timer_fn() kthread_insert_work(); BUG: kthread_insert_work() should not get called when work->canceling is set. Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201014083030.16895-1-qiang.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/kthread.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/kthread.c +++ b/kernel/kthread.c @@ -873,7 +873,8 @@ void kthread_delayed_work_timer_fn(struc /* Move the work from worker->delayed_work_list. */ WARN_ON_ONCE(list_empty(&work->node)); list_del_init(&work->node); - kthread_insert_work(worker, work, &worker->work_list); + if (!work->canceling) + kthread_insert_work(worker, work, &worker->work_list); raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&worker->lock, flags); }