[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "EDAC: Robustify workqueues destruction" has been added to the 3.16.y-ckt tree

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    EDAC: Robustify workqueues destruction

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt24.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 3089ebbd4a4dda533e7031edc5227529c58bd7ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Borislav Petkov <bp at suse.de>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 10:38:38 +0100
Subject: EDAC: Robustify workqueues destruction

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 at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 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(-)

diff --git a/drivers/edac/edac_device.c b/drivers/edac/edac_device.c
index 592af5f0cf39..53587377e672 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/edac_device.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/edac_device.c
@@ -435,16 +435,13 @@ void edac_device_workq_setup(struct edac_device_ctl_info *edac_dev,
  */
 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);
 }

 /*
diff --git a/drivers/edac/edac_mc.c b/drivers/edac/edac_mc.c
index 2c694b5297cc..9e471c5e185b 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/edac_mc.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/edac_mc.c
@@ -584,18 +584,10 @@ static void edac_mc_workq_setup(struct mem_ctl_info *mci, unsigned msec,
  */
 static void edac_mc_workq_teardown(struct mem_ctl_info *mci)
 {
-	int status;
-
-	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");
+	mci->op_state = OP_OFFLINE;

-		/* workq instance might be running, wait for it */
-		flush_workqueue(edac_workqueue);
-	}
+	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&mci->work);
+	flush_workqueue(edac_workqueue);
 }

 /*
diff --git a/drivers/edac/edac_pci.c b/drivers/edac/edac_pci.c
index 2cf44b4db80c..b4b38603b804 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/edac_pci.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/edac_pci.c
@@ -274,13 +274,12 @@ static void edac_pci_workq_setup(struct edac_pci_ctl_info *pci,
  */
 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);
 }

 /*