From 0976dfc1d0cd80a4e9dfaf87bd8744612bde475a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Boyd Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:28:50 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] workqueue: Catch more locking problems with flush_work() If a workqueue is flushed with flush_work() lockdep checking can be circumvented. For example: static DEFINE_MUTEX(mutex); static void my_work(struct work_struct *w) { mutex_lock(&mutex); mutex_unlock(&mutex); } static DECLARE_WORK(work, my_work); static int __init start_test_module(void) { schedule_work(&work); return 0; } module_init(start_test_module); static void __exit stop_test_module(void) { mutex_lock(&mutex); flush_work(&work); mutex_unlock(&mutex); } module_exit(stop_test_module); would not always print a warning when flush_work() was called. In this trivial example nothing could go wrong since we are guaranteed module_init() and module_exit() don't run concurrently, but if the work item is schedule asynchronously we could have a scenario where the work item is running just at the time flush_work() is called resulting in a classic ABBA locking problem. Add a lockdep hint by acquiring and releasing the work item lockdep_map in flush_work() so that we always catch this potential deadlock scenario. Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd Reviewed-by: Yong Zhang Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo --- kernel/workqueue.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c index 66ec08de6dac..211eadb23323 100644 --- a/kernel/workqueue.c +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -2509,6 +2509,9 @@ bool flush_work(struct work_struct *work) { struct wq_barrier barr; + lock_map_acquire(&work->lockdep_map); + lock_map_release(&work->lockdep_map); + if (start_flush_work(work, &barr, true)) { wait_for_completion(&barr.done); destroy_work_on_stack(&barr.work);