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John Stultz c56df79d68 locking/ww_mutex/test: Fix potential workqueue corruption 
[ Upstream commit bccdd80890 ]

In some cases running with the test-ww_mutex code, I was seeing
odd behavior where sometimes it seemed flush_workqueue was
returning before all the work threads were finished.

Often this would cause strange crashes as the mutexes would be
freed while they were being used.

Looking at the code, there is a lifetime problem as the
controlling thread that spawns the work allocates the
"struct stress" structures that are passed to the workqueue
threads. Then when the workqueue threads are finished,
they free the stress struct that was passed to them.

Unfortunately the workqueue work_struct node is in the stress
struct. Which means the work_struct is freed before the work
thread returns and while flush_workqueue is waiting.

It seems like a better idea to have the controlling thread
both allocate and free the stress structures, so that we can
be sure we don't corrupt the workqueue by freeing the structure
prematurely.

So this patch reworks the test to do so, and with this change
I no longer see the early flush_workqueue returns.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230922043616.19282-3-jstultz@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2023-11-28 17:06:54 +00:00
arch x86/amd_nb: Use Family 19h Models 60h-7Fh Function 4 IDs 2023-11-20 11:52:18 +01:00
block blk-core: use pr_warn_ratelimited() in bio_check_ro() 2023-11-20 11:52:17 +01:00
certs certs: Fix build error when PKCS#11 URI contains semicolon 2023-02-09 11:28:11 +01:00
crypto crypto: lrw,xts - Replace strlcpy with strscpy 2023-09-23 11:11:01 +02:00
Documentation x86/sev: Change snp_guest_issue_request()'s fw_err argument 2023-11-20 11:52:13 +01:00
drivers Revert "mmc: core: Capture correct oemid-bits for eMMC cards" 2023-11-20 11:52:18 +01:00
fs btrfs: use u64 for buffer sizes in the tree search ioctls 2023-11-20 11:52:18 +01:00
include wifi: cfg80211: fix kernel-doc for wiphy_delayed_work_flush() 2023-11-20 11:52:18 +01:00
init sched/psi: Select KERNFS as needed 2023-09-13 09:42:28 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/net: ensure socket is marked connected on connect retry 2023-11-20 11:52:18 +01:00
ipc ipc: fix memory leak in init_mqueue_fs() 2022-12-31 13:32:01 +01:00
kernel locking/ww_mutex/test: Fix potential workqueue corruption 2023-11-28 17:06:54 +00:00
lib kunit: Fix missed memory release in kunit_free_suite_set() 2023-11-20 11:52:02 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm filemap: add filemap_get_folios_tag() 2023-11-20 11:52:09 +01:00
net virtio/vsock: fix header length on skb merging 2023-11-20 11:52:19 +01:00
rust rust: allocator: Prevent mis-aligned allocation 2023-08-11 12:08:18 +02:00
samples fprobe: Pass entry_data to handlers 2023-10-25 12:03:12 +02:00
scripts modpost: fix ishtp MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE built on big-endian host 2023-11-20 11:52:12 +01:00
security apparmor: fix invalid reference on profile->disconnected 2023-11-20 11:52:09 +01:00
sound ASoC: dapm: fix clock get name 2023-11-20 11:52:18 +01:00
tools selftests: pmtu.sh: fix result checking 2023-11-20 11:52:16 +01:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt kvm/vfio: ensure kvg instance stays around in kvm_vfio_group_add() 2023-09-13 09:42:46 +02:00
.clang-format inet: ping: use hlist_nulls rcu iterator during lookup 2022-12-01 12:42:46 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore Kbuild: add Rust support 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
.mailmap 9 hotfixes. 6 for MM, 3 for other areas. Four of these patches address 2022-12-10 17:10:52 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Michal Marek from Kbuild maintainers 2022-11-16 14:53:00 +09:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS devlink: move code to a dedicated directory 2023-08-30 16:11:00 +02:00
Makefile Linux 6.1.63 2023-11-20 11:52:19 +01:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.