This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled workqueue: fix bugs in wq_update_unbound_numa() failure path to the 3.10-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: workqueue-fix-bugs-in-wq_update_unbound_numa-failure-path.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 77f300b198f93328c26191b52655ce1b62e202cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:32:29 +0900 Subject: workqueue: fix bugs in wq_update_unbound_numa() failure path From: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@xxxxxxxxx> commit 77f300b198f93328c26191b52655ce1b62e202cf upstream. wq_update_unbound_numa() failure path has the following two bugs. - alloc_unbound_pwq() is called without holding wq->mutex; however, if the allocation fails, it jumps to out_unlock which tries to unlock wq->mutex. - The function should switch to dfl_pwq on failure but didn't do so after alloc_unbound_pwq() failure. Fix it by regrabbing wq->mutex and jumping to use_dfl_pwq on alloc_unbound_pwq() failure. Signed-off-by: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 4c16bd327c74 ("workqueue: implement NUMA affinity for unbound workqueues") Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/workqueue.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/workqueue.c +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -4043,7 +4043,8 @@ static void wq_update_unbound_numa(struc if (!pwq) { pr_warning("workqueue: allocation failed while updating NUMA affinity of \"%s\"\n", wq->name); - goto out_unlock; + mutex_lock(&wq->mutex); + goto use_dfl_pwq; } /* Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from daeseok.youn@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/workqueue-fix-bugs-in-wq_update_unbound_numa-failure-path.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html