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From: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.ibm.com>
To: Joshua Daley <jdaley@linux.ibm.com>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux.dev,
	mst@redhat.com, jasowang@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com,
	stefanha@redhat.com, eperezma@redhat.com,
	James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com,
	martin.petersen@oracle.com, farman@linux.ibm.com,
	frankja@linux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] scsi: virtio_scsi: move INIT_WORK calls to virtscsi_init
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:37:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <74fa682c-e07a-46a2-bd4e-c03ca6d906e6@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260312174256.1557045-4-jdaley@linux.ibm.com>

On 3/12/26 1:42 PM, Joshua Daley wrote:
> The last step of virtscsi_handle_event is to call virtscsi_kick_event,
> which calls INIT_WORK on it's own work item. INIT_WORK resets the
> work item's data bits to 0.
> 
> If this occurs while the work item is being flushed by
> cancel_work_sync, then kernel/workqueue.c/work_offqd_enable triggers a
> kernel warning, as it expects the "disable" bit to be 1:
> 
> [   21.450115] workqueue: work disable count underflowed
> [   21.450117] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 56 at kernel/workqueue.c:4328 enable_work+0x10a/0x120
> ...
> [   21.450171] Call Trace:
> [   21.450173]  [<000003db2e5bdc3e>] enable_work+0x10e/0x120
> [   21.450176] ([<000003db2e5bdc3a>] enable_work+0x10a/0x120)
> [   21.450178]  [<000003db2e5bdd86>] cancel_work_sync+0x86/0xa0
> [   21.450181]  [<000003daae97d9e4>] virtscsi_remove+0xb4/0xd0 [virtio_scsi]
> [   21.450184]  [<000003db2ef3b5ca>] virtio_dev_remove+0x6a/0xd0
> [   21.450186]  [<000003db2ef9106c>] device_release_driver_internal+0x1ac/0x260
> [   21.450190]  [<000003db2ef8edc8>] bus_remove_device+0xf8/0x190
> [   21.450192]  [<000003db2ef88d72>] device_del+0x142/0x340
> [   21.450194]  [<000003db2ef88fa0>] device_unregister+0x30/0xa0
> [   21.450196]  [<000003db2ef3b2fa>] unregister_virtio_device+0x2a/0x40
> 
> This warning may occur if a controller is detached immediately
> following a disk detach.
> 
> Move the INIT_WORK call to prevent this. Don't re-init event list
> work items in virtscsi_kick_event, init them only once in
> virtscsi_init instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joshua Daley <jdaley@linux.ibm.com>

With patch 2 either squashed in OR moved after this one:

Reviewed-by: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.ibm.com>



  reply	other threads:[~2026-03-16 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-12 17:42 [PATCH v2 0/3] scsi: virtio_scsi: move INIT_WORK calls to virtscsi_init Joshua Daley
2026-03-12 17:42 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] scsi: virtio_scsi: kick event_list unconditionally Joshua Daley
2026-03-16 14:37   ` Matthew Rosato
2026-03-12 17:42 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] scsi: virtio_scsi: remove unnecessary fn declaration Joshua Daley
2026-03-16 13:55   ` Matthew Rosato
2026-03-16 14:55     ` Joshua Daley
2026-03-12 17:42 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] scsi: virtio_scsi: move INIT_WORK calls to virtscsi_init Joshua Daley
2026-03-16 14:37   ` Matthew Rosato [this message]
2026-03-14  7:10 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] " Stefan Hajnoczi

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