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    workqueue: make rescuer_thread() empty wq->maydays list before exiting · 4d595b86
    Lai Jiangshan authored
    After a @pwq is scheduled for emergency execution, other workers may
    consume the affectd work items before the rescuer gets to them.  This
    means that a workqueue many have pwqs queued on @wq->maydays list
    while not having any work item pending or in-flight.  If
    destroy_workqueue() executes in such condition, the rescuer may exit
    without emptying @wq->maydays.
    
    This currently doesn't cause any actual harm.  destroy_workqueue() can
    safely destroy all the involved data structures whether @wq->maydays
    is populated or not as nobody access the list once the rescuer exits.
    
    However, this is nasty and makes future development difficult.  Let's
    update rescuer_thread() so that it empties @wq->maydays after seeing
    should_stop to guarantee that the list is empty on rescuer exit.
    
    tj: Updated comment and patch description.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.10+
    4d595b86
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