kernel: always initialize task->pf_io_worker to NULL

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Otherwise io_wq_worker_{running,sleeping}() may dereference an
invalid pointer (in future). Currently all users of create_io_thread()
are fine and get task->pf_io_worker = NULL implicitly from the
wq_manager, which got it either from the userspace thread
of the sq_thread, which explicitly reset it to NULL.

I think it's safer to always reset it in order to avoid future
problems.

Fixes: 3bfe610669 ("io-wq: fork worker threads from original task")
cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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Stefan Metzmacher 2021-04-25 01:26:03 +02:00 • committed by Jens Axboe

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