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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Roman Pen <roman.penyaev@profitbricks.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
	"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched: do not call workqueue sleep hook if task is already dead
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 07:39:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161021053920.GW3102@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160921154350.13128-2-roman.penyaev@profitbricks.com>

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 05:43:50PM +0200, Roman Pen wrote:
> If panic_on_oops is not set and oops happens inside workqueue kthread,
> kernel kills this kthread.  Current patch fixes recursive GPF which
> happens in that case with the following stack:


> The root cause is that zeroed task->vfork_done member is accessed from
> wq_worker_sleeping() hook. 

This is the kthread_data() -> to_kthread() thing? Could've done with
spelling out, now you had me searching all over :/


Urgh what a mess..

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-21  5:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-21 15:43 [PATCH 1/2] x86/dumpstack: on oops do not rewind stack for kthread Roman Pen
2016-09-21 15:43 ` [PATCH 2/2] sched: do not call workqueue sleep hook if task is already dead Roman Pen
2016-10-20 23:08   ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-21 15:47     ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-24 16:01       ` Roman Penyaev
2016-10-21  5:39   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2016-10-20 23:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/dumpstack: on oops do not rewind stack for kthread Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-21  5:56   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-10-21  8:05     ` Thomas Gleixner

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