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>
Tue, 17 Dec 2019 19:34:53 +0000 (20:34 +0100)
commit7c43540e884345998824376782bc5134aeb166b6
treea6b8ab8f57610250f21ca404c7debcdcd6e77f44
parent56a830249038c2d4d88b78a43ed12582ba9a41c3
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