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| author | Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> | 2016-01-08 11:18:29 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-01-09 08:47:54 +0100 |
| commit | 751e5f5c753e8d447bcf89f9e96b9616ac081628 (patch) | |
| tree | 4eadbac1db1b02b3515aa3e44cb37c147e53e63d /mm/vmstat.c | |
| parent | Merge tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/... (diff) | |
| download | linux-751e5f5c753e8d447bcf89f9e96b9616ac081628.tar.xz linux-751e5f5c753e8d447bcf89f9e96b9616ac081628.zip | |
vmstat: allocate vmstat_wq before it is used
kernel test robot has reported the following crash:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000100
IP: [<c1074df6>] __queue_work+0x26/0x390
*pdpt = 0000000000000000 *pde = f000ff53f000ff53 *pde = f000ff53f000ff53
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT PREEMPT SMP SMP
CPU: 0 PID: 24 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 4.4.0-rc4-00139-g373ccbe #1
Workqueue: events vmstat_shepherd
task: cb684600 ti: cb7ba000 task.ti: cb7ba000
EIP: 0060:[<c1074df6>] EFLAGS: 00010046 CPU: 0
EIP is at __queue_work+0x26/0x390
EAX: 00000046 EBX: cbb37800 ECX: cbb37800 EDX: 00000000
ESI: 00000000 EDI: 00000000 EBP: cb7bbe68 ESP: cb7bbe38
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
CR0: 8005003b CR2: 00000100 CR3: 01fd5000 CR4: 000006b0
Stack:
Call Trace:
__queue_delayed_work+0xa1/0x160
queue_delayed_work_on+0x36/0x60
vmstat_shepherd+0xad/0xf0
process_one_work+0x1aa/0x4c0
worker_thread+0x41/0x440
kthread+0xb0/0xd0
ret_from_kernel_thread+0x21/0x40
The reason is that start_shepherd_timer schedules the shepherd work item
which uses vmstat_wq (vmstat_shepherd) before setup_vmstat allocates
that workqueue so if the further initialization takes more than HZ we
might end up scheduling on a NULL vmstat_wq. This is really unlikely
but not impossible.
Fixes: 373ccbe59270 ("mm, vmstat: allow WQ concurrency to discover memory reclaim doesn't make any progress")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <ying.huang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmstat.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmstat.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c index 4ebc17d948cb..c54fd2924f25 100644 --- a/mm/vmstat.c +++ b/mm/vmstat.c @@ -1483,6 +1483,7 @@ static void __init start_shepherd_timer(void) BUG(); cpumask_copy(cpu_stat_off, cpu_online_mask); + vmstat_wq = alloc_workqueue("vmstat", WQ_FREEZABLE|WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0); schedule_delayed_work(&shepherd, round_jiffies_relative(sysctl_stat_interval)); } @@ -1550,7 +1551,6 @@ static int __init setup_vmstat(void) start_shepherd_timer(); cpu_notifier_register_done(); - vmstat_wq = alloc_workqueue("vmstat", WQ_FREEZABLE|WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0); #endif #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS proc_create("buddyinfo", S_IRUGO, NULL, &fragmentation_file_operations); |