linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] workqueue changes for v5.5-rc1

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Date:   Mon, 25 Nov 2019 08:03:14 -0800
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>
Subject: [GIT PULL] workqueue changes for v5.5-rc1

Hello,

There have been sporadic reports of sanity checks in
destroy_workqueue() failing spuriously over the years.  This pull
request contains the fix and its follow-up changes / fixes.  There's
also a RCU annotation improvement.

Thanks.

The following changes since commit f60c55a94e1d127186566f06294f2dadd966e9b4:

  Merge tag 'fsverity-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/fscrypt (2019-09-18 16:59:14 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq.git for-5.5

for you to fetch changes up to 49e9d1a9faf2f71fdfd80a30697ee9a15070626d:

  workqueue: Add RCU annotation for pwq list walk (2019-11-15 11:53:35 -0800)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior (1):
      workqueue: Add RCU annotation for pwq list walk

Tejun Heo (5):
      workqueue: Fix spurious sanity check failures in destroy_workqueue()
      workqueue: Fix missing kfree(rescuer) in destroy_workqueue()
      workqueue: Minor follow-ups to the rescuer destruction change
      workqueue: more destroy_workqueue() fixes
      workqueue: Fix pwq ref leak in rescuer_thread()

 kernel/workqueue.c | 90 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 65 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

-- 
tejun