Re: [PATCH] workqueue: rust: add creation of workqueues

[Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 09:01:35AM +0000, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 08:15:41PM +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 03:34:24PM +0000, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> > > 
> > > +/// An owned kernel work queue.
> > 
> > I'd suggest to document that dropping an OwnedQueue will wait for pending work.
> > 
> > Additionally, given that you're about to implement delayed work as well, we
> > should also mention that destroy_workqueue() currently does not cover waiting
> > for delayed work *before* it is scheduled and hence may cause WARN() splats or
> > even UAF bugs.
> 
> Ah, that's a problem :(
> 
> Can we make destroy_workqueue() wait for delayed items too? And/or have
> a variant of it that does so? I'm not sure what is best to do here...

I think the problem is that the workq is not aware of all the timers in flight
and simply queues the work in the timer callback. See also [1].

I'm not sure there's an easy solution to that, without adding extra overhead,
such as keeping a list of timers in flight in the workqueue end. :(

[1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.13.7/source/kernel/workqueue.c#L2489