Patch "EDAC: Robustify workqueues destruction" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    EDAC: Robustify workqueues destruction

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     edac-robustify-workqueues-destruction.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From fcd5c4dd8201595d4c598c9cca5e54760277d687 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 10:38:38 +0100
Subject: EDAC: Robustify workqueues destruction

From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>

commit fcd5c4dd8201595d4c598c9cca5e54760277d687 upstream.

EDAC workqueue destruction is really fragile. We cancel delayed work
but if it is still running and requeues itself, we still go ahead and
destroy the workqueue and the queued work explodes when workqueue core
attempts to run it.

Make the destruction more robust by switching op_state to offline so
that requeuing stops. Cancel any pending work *synchronously* too.

  EDAC i7core: Driver loaded.
  general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
  CPU 12
  Modules linked in:
  Supported: Yes
  Pid: 0, comm: kworker/0:1 Tainted: G          IE   3.0.101-0-default #1 HP ProLiant DL380 G7
  RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8107dcd7>]  [<ffffffff8107dcd7>] __queue_work+0x17/0x3f0
  < ... regs ...>
  Process kworker/0:1 (pid: 0, threadinfo ffff88019def6000, task ffff88019def4600)
  Stack:
   ...
  Call Trace:
   call_timer_fn
   run_timer_softirq
   __do_softirq
   call_softirq
   do_softirq
   irq_exit
   smp_apic_timer_interrupt
   apic_timer_interrupt
   intel_idle
   cpuidle_idle_call
   cpu_idle
  Code: ...
  RIP  __queue_work
   RSP <...>

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/edac/edac_device.c |   11 ++++-------
 drivers/edac/edac_mc.c     |   14 +++-----------
 drivers/edac/edac_pci.c    |    9 ++++-----
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/edac/edac_device.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/edac_device.c
@@ -435,16 +435,13 @@ void edac_device_workq_setup(struct edac
  */
 void edac_device_workq_teardown(struct edac_device_ctl_info *edac_dev)
 {
-	int status;
-
 	if (!edac_dev->edac_check)
 		return;
 
-	status = cancel_delayed_work(&edac_dev->work);
-	if (status == 0) {
-		/* workq instance might be running, wait for it */
-		flush_workqueue(edac_workqueue);
-	}
+	edac_dev->op_state = OP_OFFLINE;
+
+	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&edac_dev->work);
+	flush_workqueue(edac_workqueue);
 }
 
 /*
--- a/drivers/edac/edac_mc.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/edac_mc.c
@@ -586,18 +586,10 @@ static void edac_mc_workq_setup(struct m
  */
 static void edac_mc_workq_teardown(struct mem_ctl_info *mci)
 {
-	int status;
+	mci->op_state = OP_OFFLINE;
 
-	if (mci->op_state != OP_RUNNING_POLL)
-		return;
-
-	status = cancel_delayed_work(&mci->work);
-	if (status == 0) {
-		edac_dbg(0, "not canceled, flush the queue\n");
-
-		/* workq instance might be running, wait for it */
-		flush_workqueue(edac_workqueue);
-	}
+	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&mci->work);
+	flush_workqueue(edac_workqueue);
 }
 
 /*
--- a/drivers/edac/edac_pci.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/edac_pci.c
@@ -274,13 +274,12 @@ static void edac_pci_workq_setup(struct
  */
 static void edac_pci_workq_teardown(struct edac_pci_ctl_info *pci)
 {
-	int status;
-
 	edac_dbg(0, "\n");
 
-	status = cancel_delayed_work(&pci->work);
-	if (status == 0)
-		flush_workqueue(edac_workqueue);
+	pci->op_state = OP_OFFLINE;
+
+	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&pci->work);
+	flush_workqueue(edac_workqueue);
 }
 
 /*


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bp@suse.de are

queue-4.4/edac-robustify-workqueues-destruction.patch
queue-4.4/edac-mc_sysfs-fix-freeing-bus-name.patch