Re: [PATCH 1/2] PCI/DOE: Silence WARN splat upon task submission

[Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@Huawei.com>]

On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 05:25:51 +0100
Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de> wrote:

> Gregory Price reports a WARN splat with CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS=y upon CXL
> probing because pci_doe_submit_task() invokes INIT_WORK() instead of
> INIT_WORK_ONSTACK() for a work_struct that was allocated on the stack.
> 
> All callers of pci_doe_submit_task() allocate the work_struct on the
> stack, so replace INIT_WORK() with INIT_WORK_ONSTACK() as a backportable
> short-term fix.
> 
> Stacktrace for posterity:
> 
> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 23 at lib/debugobjects.c:545 __debug_object_init.cold+0x18/0x183
> CPU: 0 PID: 23 Comm: kworker/u2:1 Not tainted 6.1.0-0.rc1.20221019gitaae703b02f92.17.fc38.x86_64 #1
> Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
> Call Trace:
>  pci_doe_submit_task+0x5d/0xd0
>  pci_doe_discovery+0xb4/0x100
>  pcim_doe_create_mb+0x219/0x290
>  cxl_pci_probe+0x192/0x430
>  local_pci_probe+0x41/0x80
>  pci_device_probe+0xb3/0x220
>  really_probe+0xde/0x380
>  __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x170
>  driver_probe_device+0x1f/0x90
>  __driver_attach_async_helper+0x5c/0xe0
>  async_run_entry_fn+0x30/0x130
>  process_one_work+0x294/0x5b0
> 
> Fixes: 9d24322e887b ("PCI/DOE: Add DOE mailbox support functions")
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cxl/Y1bOniJliOFszvIK@memverge.com/
> Reported-by: Gregory Price <gregory.price@memverge.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.0+
> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
> ---
>  drivers/pci/doe.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/doe.c b/drivers/pci/doe.c
> index 66d9ab288646..52541eac17f1 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/doe.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/doe.c
> @@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ int pci_doe_submit_task(struct pci_doe_mb *doe_mb, struct pci_doe_task *task)
>  		return -EIO;
>  
>  	task->doe_mb = doe_mb;
> -	INIT_WORK(&task->work, doe_statemachine_work);
> +	INIT_WORK_ONSTACK(&task->work, doe_statemachine_work);

If we go this way, add a comment to say 'why' it is ONSTACK
or add to the function description to say it 'must be on stack'.

>  	queue_work(doe_mb->work_queue, &task->work);
>  	return 0;
>  }