kernel: always initialize task->pf_io_worker to NULL
authorStefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
Sat, 24 Apr 2021 23:26:03 +0000 (01:26 +0200)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Sun, 25 Apr 2021 16:29:03 +0000 (10:29 -0600)
commitff244303301f6f2ac90107c61d18826efd0af822
tree0c11fe34c2e36512b56c43ba13170856ffc56485
parent2b4ae19c6d4842dc24d9e0cbec5c98d2766643d5
kernel: always initialize task->pf_io_worker to NULL

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: 3bfe6106693b ("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>
kernel/fork.c