Patch "workqueue: implicit ordered attribute should be overridable" has been added to the 4.12-stable tree

Patch "workqueue: implicit ordered attribute should be overridable" has been added to the 4.12-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    workqueue: implicit ordered attribute should be overridable

to the 4.12-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:
     workqueue-implicit-ordered-attribute-should-be-overridable.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.12 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 0a94efb5acbb6980d7c9ab604372d93cd507e4d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 08:36:15 -0400
Subject: workqueue: implicit ordered attribute should be overridable

From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

commit 0a94efb5acbb6980d7c9ab604372d93cd507e4d8 upstream.

5c0338c68706 ("workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be
ordered") automatically enabled ordered attribute for unbound
workqueues w/ max_active == 1.  Because ordered workqueues reject
max_active and some attribute changes, this implicit ordered mode
broke cases where the user creates an unbound workqueue w/ max_active
== 1 and later explicitly changes the related attributes.

This patch distinguishes explicit and implicit ordered setting and
overrides from attribute changes if implict.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Fixes: 5c0338c68706 ("workqueue: restore WQ_UNBOUND/max_active==1 to be ordered")
Cc: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 include/linux/workqueue.h |    4 +++-
 kernel/workqueue.c        |   13 +++++++++----
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/workqueue.h
+++ b/include/linux/workqueue.h
@@ -323,6 +323,7 @@ enum {
 
 	__WQ_DRAINING		= 1 << 16, /* internal: workqueue is draining */
 	__WQ_ORDERED		= 1 << 17, /* internal: workqueue is ordered */
+	__WQ_ORDERED_EXPLICIT	= 1 << 18, /* internal: alloc_ordered_workqueue() */
 	__WQ_LEGACY		= 1 << 18, /* internal: create*_workqueue() */
 
 	WQ_MAX_ACTIVE		= 512,	  /* I like 512, better ideas? */
@@ -422,7 +423,8 @@ __alloc_workqueue_key(const char *fmt, u
  * Pointer to the allocated workqueue on success, %NULL on failure.
  */
 #define alloc_ordered_workqueue(fmt, flags, args...)			\
-	alloc_workqueue(fmt, WQ_UNBOUND | __WQ_ORDERED | (flags), 1, ##args)
+	alloc_workqueue(fmt, WQ_UNBOUND | __WQ_ORDERED |		\
+			__WQ_ORDERED_EXPLICIT | (flags), 1, ##args)
 
 #define create_workqueue(name)						\
 	alloc_workqueue("%s", __WQ_LEGACY | WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 1, (name))
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -3744,8 +3744,12 @@ static int apply_workqueue_attrs_locked(
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	/* creating multiple pwqs breaks ordering guarantee */
-	if (WARN_ON((wq->flags & __WQ_ORDERED) && !list_empty(&wq->pwqs)))
-		return -EINVAL;
+	if (!list_empty(&wq->pwqs)) {
+		if (WARN_ON(wq->flags & __WQ_ORDERED_EXPLICIT))
+			return -EINVAL;
+
+		wq->flags &= ~__WQ_ORDERED;
+	}
 
 	ctx = apply_wqattrs_prepare(wq, attrs);
 	if (!ctx)
@@ -4129,13 +4133,14 @@ void workqueue_set_max_active(struct wor
 	struct pool_workqueue *pwq;
 
 	/* disallow meddling with max_active for ordered workqueues */
-	if (WARN_ON(wq->flags & __WQ_ORDERED))
+	if (WARN_ON(wq->flags & __WQ_ORDERED_EXPLICIT))
 		return;
 
 	max_active = wq_clamp_max_active(max_active, wq->flags, wq->name);
 
 	mutex_lock(&wq->mutex);
 
+	wq->flags &= ~__WQ_ORDERED;
 	wq->saved_max_active = max_active;
 
 	for_each_pwq(pwq, wq)
@@ -5263,7 +5268,7 @@ int workqueue_sysfs_register(struct work
 	 * attributes breaks ordering guarantee.  Disallow exposing ordered
 	 * workqueues.
 	 */
-	if (WARN_ON(wq->flags & __WQ_ORDERED))
+	if (WARN_ON(wq->flags & __WQ_ORDERED_EXPLICIT))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	wq->wq_dev = wq_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*wq_dev), GFP_KERNEL);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tj@kernel.org are

queue-4.12/cgroup-don-t-call-migration-methods-if-there-are-no-tasks-to-migrate.patch
queue-4.12/cgroup-create-dfl_root-files-on-subsys-registration.patch
queue-4.12/cgroup-fix-error-return-value-from-cgroup_subtree_control.patch
queue-4.12/workqueue-implicit-ordered-attribute-should-be-overridable.patch
queue-4.12/workqueue-restore-wq_unbound-max_active-1-to-be-ordered.patch
queue-4.12/libata-array-underflow-in-ata_find_dev.patch