Re: Patch "workqueue: Fix flag collision" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 04:48:52PM +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> 
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> 
>     workqueue: Fix flag collision
> 
> 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-fix-flag-collision.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 fbf1c41fc0f4d3574ac2377245efd666c1fa3075 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 01:18:41 +0100
> Subject: workqueue: Fix flag collision
> 
> From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> 
> commit fbf1c41fc0f4d3574ac2377245efd666c1fa3075 upstream.
> 
> Commit 0a94efb5acbb ("workqueue: implicit ordered attribute should be
> overridable") introduced a __WQ_ORDERED_EXPLICIT flag but gave it the
> same value as __WQ_LEGACY.  I don't believe these were intended to
> mean the same thing, so renumber __WQ_ORDERED_EXPLICIT.
> 
> Fixes: 0a94efb5acbb ("workqueue: implicit ordered attribute should be ...")
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> ---
>  include/linux/workqueue.h |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- a/include/linux/workqueue.h
> +++ b/include/linux/workqueue.h
> @@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ 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_ORDERED_EXPLICIT	= 1 << 19, /* internal: alloc_ordered_workqueue() */
>  
>  	WQ_MAX_ACTIVE		= 512,	  /* I like 512, better ideas? */
>  	WQ_MAX_UNBOUND_PER_CPU	= 4,	  /* 4 * #cpus for unbound wq */
> 
> 
> Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ben@decadent.org.uk are
> 
> queue-4.4/usb-xhci-fix-regression-when-ati-chipsets-detected.patch
> queue-4.4/workqueue-fix-flag-collision.patch

Hey Greg,

I don't think this patch makes sense in 3.18 or 4.4 as they don't have
the __WQ_LEGACY flag from 23d11a58a9a60dcb52c8fc6494efce908b24c295
(which first appeared in 4.5).

Cheers!
Nathan Chancellor