linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] workqueue: fix bugs in wq_update_unbound

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Date:	Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:30:22 -0400
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@...il.com>
Cc:	laijs@...fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] workqueue: fix bugs in wq_update_unbound_numa()
 failure path

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 02:32:29PM +0900, Daeseok Youn wrote:
> 
> 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@...il.com>

Applied to wq/for-3.15-fixes.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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