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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Xiaotian Feng <xtfeng@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Xiaotian Feng <dannyfeng@tencent.com>,
	Neela Syam Kolli <megaraidlinux@lsi.com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] megaraid: fix use of delayed work
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 07:39:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121204153939.GD3885@mtj.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1354620834-2953-1-git-send-email-xtfeng@gmail.com>

On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 07:33:54PM +0800, Xiaotian Feng wrote:
> megaraid use INIT_WORK to declare a hotplug_work, but cast the hotplug_work
> from work_struct to delayed_work and schedule_delayed_work on it. This is
> very dangerous, as other part of delayed_work might be kernel memories allocated
> by others.
> 
> With commit 8852aac, schedule_delayed_work() will check dwork->timer before
> queue_work, this will cause megaraid code to hit the BUG_ON in workqueue code.
> Change megaraid code to use delayed work.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dannyfeng@tencent.com>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Cc: Neela Syam Kolli <megaraidlinux@lsi.com>
> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@parallels.com>
> Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org

Urgh... what the....  Didn't see that one coming.  I'm gonna push this
to Linus through the workqueue tree.

Thanks for the fix.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-04 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-04 11:33 [PATCH] megaraid: fix use of delayed work Xiaotian Feng
2012-12-04 15:39 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2012-12-04 15:57   ` Tejun Heo
2012-12-04 15:54 ` [PATCH 1/2] megaraid: fix BUG_ON() from incorrect " Tejun Heo
2012-12-04 15:55   ` [PATCH 2/2] workqueue: convert BUG_ON()s in __queue_delayed_work() to WARN_ON_ONCE()s Tejun Heo
2012-12-05 11:02   ` [PATCH 1/2] megaraid: fix BUG_ON() from incorrect use of delayed work Daniel Vacek
2012-12-05 11:16     ` Daniel Vacek

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