workqueue: Fix spurious sanity check failures in destroy_workqueue()
authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Thu, 19 Sep 2019 01:43:40 +0000 (18:43 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 21 Dec 2019 09:42:01 +0000 (10:42 +0100)
commit54f859a30adaed2a15a4d5a0e454507c706c175d
treeea6138907ac2073f2bc288d62a05831292248580
parent6693e85bafc888da90b52f282fda376b00bf99c7
workqueue: Fix spurious sanity check failures in destroy_workqueue()

commit def98c84b6cdf2eeea19ec5736e90e316df5206b upstream.

Before actually destrying a workqueue, destroy_workqueue() checks
whether it's actually idle.  If it isn't, it prints out a bunch of
warning messages and leaves the workqueue dangling.  It unfortunately
has a couple issues.

* Mayday list queueing increments pwq's refcnts which gets detected as
  busy and fails the sanity checks.  However, because mayday list
  queueing is asynchronous, this condition can happen without any
  actual work items left in the workqueue.

* Sanity check failure leaves the sysfs interface behind too which can
  lead to init failure of newer instances of the workqueue.

This patch fixes the above two by

* If a workqueue has a rescuer, disable and kill the rescuer before
  sanity checks.  Disabling and killing is guaranteed to flush the
  existing mayday list.

* Remove sysfs interface before sanity checks.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Marcin Pawlowski <mpawlowski@fb.com>
Reported-by: "Williams, Gerald S" <gerald.s.williams@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/workqueue.c