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John Stultz dcd85e3c92 locking/ww_mutex/test: Fix potential workqueue corruption
[ Upstream commit bccdd808902f8c677317cec47c306e42b93b849e ]

In some cases running with the test-ww_mutex code, I was seeing
odd behavior where sometimes it seemed flush_workqueue was
returning before all the work threads were finished.

Often this would cause strange crashes as the mutexes would be
freed while they were being used.

Looking at the code, there is a lifetime problem as the
controlling thread that spawns the work allocates the
"struct stress" structures that are passed to the workqueue
threads. Then when the workqueue threads are finished,
they free the stress struct that was passed to them.

Unfortunately the workqueue work_struct node is in the stress
struct. Which means the work_struct is freed before the work
thread returns and while flush_workqueue is waiting.

It seems like a better idea to have the controlling thread
both allocate and free the stress structures, so that we can
be sure we don't corrupt the workqueue by freeing the structure
prematurely.

So this patch reworks the test to do so, and with this change
I no longer see the early flush_workqueue returns.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230922043616.19282-3-jstultz@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2023-11-28 16:50:13 +00:00
arch powerpc/pseries: fix potential memory leak in init_cpu_associativity() 2023-11-20 10:30:14 +01:00
block block/partition: fix signedness issue for Amiga partitions 2023-07-27 08:37:29 +02:00
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crypto X.509: if signature is unsupported skip validation 2023-09-23 10:59:55 +02:00
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drivers Revert "mmc: core: Capture correct oemid-bits for eMMC cards" 2023-11-20 10:30:16 +01:00
fs btrfs: use u64 for buffer sizes in the tree search ioctls 2023-11-20 10:30:16 +01:00
include netfilter: nft_redir: use struct nf_nat_range2 throughout and deduplicate eval call-backs 2023-11-20 10:30:16 +01:00
init x86/mm: Initialize text poking earlier 2023-08-08 19:56:36 +02:00
ipc ipc/sem: Fix dangling sem_array access in semtimedop race 2022-12-08 11:23:06 +01:00
kernel locking/ww_mutex/test: Fix potential workqueue corruption 2023-11-28 16:50:13 +00:00
lib kobject: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in fill_kobj_path() 2023-11-08 11:23:38 +01:00
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sound ASoC: ams-delta.c: use component after check 2023-11-20 10:30:13 +01:00
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