linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.19-rt] workqueue: Fix deadlock due to recursive locking of pool->lock

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Date:   Mon, 13 Mar 2023 10:36:41 +0100
From:   Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
To:     "Brennan Lamoreaux (VMware)" <brennanlamoreaux@...il.com>,
        Daniel Wagner <wagi@...om.org>
Cc:     linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        blamoreaux@...are.com, frederic.martinsons@...il.com,
        srivatsa@...il.mit.edu, vsirnapalli@...are.com,
        amakhalov@...are.com, keerthanak@...are.com, ankitja@...are.com,
        bordoloih@...are.com, srivatsab@...are.com,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19-rt] workqueue: Fix deadlock due to recursive locking
 of pool->lock

On 2023-02-28 14:49:38 [-0800], Brennan Lamoreaux (VMware) wrote:
> Upstream commit d8bb65ab70f7 ("workqueue: Use rcuwait for wq_manager_wait")
> replaced the waitqueue with rcuwait in the workqueue code. This change
> involved removing the acquisition of pool->lock in put_unbound_pool(),
> as it also adds the function wq_manager_inactive() which acquires this same
> lock and is called one line later as a parameter to rcu_wait_event().

Daniel, I double checked and this patch is correct - the backport was
faulty. Could you please pick it up and release an update?

Sebastian