linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] megaraid: fix use of delayed work

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Date:	Tue, 4 Dec 2012 07:39:39 -0800
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Xiaotian Feng <xtfeng@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Xiaotian Feng <dannyfeng@...cent.com>,
	Neela Syam Kolli <megaraidlinux@....com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@...allels.com>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] megaraid: fix use of delayed work

On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 07:33:54PM +0800, Xiaotian Feng wrote:
> megaraid use INIT_WORK to declare a hotplug_work, but cast the hotplug_work
> from work_struct to delayed_work and schedule_delayed_work on it. This is
> very dangerous, as other part of delayed_work might be kernel memories allocated
> by others.
> 
> With commit 8852aac, schedule_delayed_work() will check dwork->timer before
> queue_work, this will cause megaraid code to hit the BUG_ON in workqueue code.
> Change megaraid code to use delayed work.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dannyfeng@...cent.com>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Cc: Neela Syam Kolli <megaraidlinux@....com>
> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@...allels.com>
> Cc: linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org

Urgh... what the....  Didn't see that one coming.  I'm gonna push this
to Linus through the workqueue tree.

Thanks for the fix.

-- 
tejun
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