linux-kernel - [patch v2] workqueue: change BUG_ON() to WARN

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Date:	Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:06:58 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch v2] workqueue: change BUG_ON() to WARN_ON()

This BUG_ON() can be triggered if you call schedule_work() before
calling INIT_WORK().  It is a bug definitely, but it's nicer to just
print a stack trace and return.

Reported-by: Matt Renzelmann <mjr@...wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
---
v2: the first version added a second check before the BUG_ON()

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 5abf42f..66ec08d 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -1032,7 +1032,10 @@ static void __queue_work(unsigned int cpu, struct workqueue_struct *wq,
 	cwq = get_cwq(gcwq->cpu, wq);
 	trace_workqueue_queue_work(cpu, cwq, work);
 
-	BUG_ON(!list_empty(&work->entry));
+	if (WARN_ON(!list_empty(&work->entry))) {
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&gcwq->lock, flags);
+		return;
+	}
 
 	cwq->nr_in_flight[cwq->work_color]++;
 	work_flags = work_color_to_flags(cwq->work_color);
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