From: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
To: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>, Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>,
Frank Li <Frank.Li@kernel.org>, Fenghua Yu <fenghuay@nvidia.com>,
Shuai Xue <xueshuai@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@hpe.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] dmaengine: idxd: Do not call destroy_workqueue with null idxd->wq
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:34:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mrshjkl6.fsf@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <88903331-7dff-4732-b443-10e8fcb9699f@intel.com>
Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> writes:
> On 10/12/26 2:38 PM, Vinicius Costa Gomes wrote:
>> From: Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@hpe.com>
>>
>> Error paths within idxd_pci_probe_alloc and related functions end up
>> calling destroy_workqueue with a null pointer, from
>> idxd_conf_device_release via put_device, because that allocation has
>> not yet occurred when the error is hit.
>>
>> This was encountered running in a kexec'd kdump kernel with reduced
>> resources, causing the "Device is HALTED!" branch in
>> idxd_device_init_reset to be taken.
>>
>> In idxd_conf_device_release, check that the workqueue has been
>> allocated before trying to destroy it.
>>
>> Fixes: 3d33de353b1f ("dmaengine: idxd: Fix not releasing workqueue on .release()")
>> Signed-off-by: Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@hpe.com>
>> Acked-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
> ^ needs a sign off rather than an ack since you posted his patch?
>
Yeah, will add my sign off.
Cheers,
--
Vinicius
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-13 22:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-12 21:38 [PATCH 0/6] dmaengine: idxd: More error handling fixes Vinicius Costa Gomes
2026-10-12 21:38 ` [PATCH 1/6] dmaengine: idxd: Do not call destroy_workqueue with null idxd->wq Vinicius Costa Gomes
2026-10-13 14:55 ` Frank Li
2026-10-13 17:18 ` Dave Jiang
2026-10-13 22:34 ` Vinicius Costa Gomes [this message]
2026-10-12 21:38 ` [PATCH 2/6] dmaengine: idxd: fix duplicate memory frees on initialization error path Vinicius Costa Gomes
2026-10-13 14:57 ` Frank Li
2026-10-13 22:31 ` Vinicius Costa Gomes
2026-10-13 17:21 ` Dave Jiang
2026-10-12 21:38 ` [PATCH 3/6] dmaengine: idxd: Fix potential double free on probe " Vinicius Costa Gomes
2026-10-13 17:30 ` Dave Jiang
2026-10-12 21:38 ` [PATCH 4/6] dmaengine: idxd: Fix unwind bounds in device registration error paths Vinicius Costa Gomes
2026-10-12 21:47 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-12 21:38 ` [PATCH 5/6] dmaengine: idxd: Fix error code handling in idxd_cdev_open() Vinicius Costa Gomes
2026-10-12 21:50 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-12 21:38 ` [PATCH 6/6] dmaengine: idxd: Do not release interrupt handles on terminate_all Vinicius Costa Gomes
2026-10-12 21:58 ` sashiko-bot
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