From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:58732 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752265AbdLLMp4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Dec 2017 07:45:56 -0500 Subject: Patch "workqueue: trigger WARN if queue_delayed_work() is called with NULL @wq" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree To: tj@kernel.org, alexander.levin@verizon.com, davej@codemonkey.org.uk, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 13:44:13 +0100 Message-ID: <1513082653224181@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled workqueue: trigger WARN if queue_delayed_work() is called with NULL @wq 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: workqueue-trigger-warn-if-queue_delayed_work-is-called-with-null-wq.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 know about it. >>From foo@baz Tue Dec 12 13:38:50 CET 2017 From: Tejun Heo Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 15:33:42 -0500 Subject: workqueue: trigger WARN if queue_delayed_work() is called with NULL @wq From: Tejun Heo [ Upstream commit 637fdbae60d6cb9f6e963c1079d7e0445c86ff7d ] If queue_delayed_work() gets called with NULL @wq, the kernel will oops asynchronuosly on timer expiration which isn't too helpful in tracking down the offender. This actually happened with smc. __queue_delayed_work() already does several input sanity checks synchronously. Add NULL @wq check. Reported-by: Dave Jones Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170227171439.jshx3qplflyrgcv7@codemonkey.org.uk Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/workqueue.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/kernel/workqueue.c +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -1479,6 +1479,7 @@ static void __queue_delayed_work(int cpu struct timer_list *timer = &dwork->timer; struct work_struct *work = &dwork->work; + WARN_ON_ONCE(!wq); WARN_ON_ONCE(timer->function != delayed_work_timer_fn || timer->data != (unsigned long)dwork); WARN_ON_ONCE(timer_pending(timer)); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tj@kernel.org are queue-4.4/libata-drop-warn-from-protocol-error-in-ata_sff_qc_issue.patch queue-4.4/workqueue-trigger-warn-if-queue_delayed_work-is-called-with-null-wq.patch