Re: [syzbot] WARNING in call_timer_fn

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Fri, Nov 18 2022 at 09:53, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> On 2022/11/18 6:16, Luiz Augusto von Dentz wrote:
> The comment for drain_workqueue() says
>
>  * Wait until the workqueue becomes empty.  While draining is in progress,
>  * only chain queueing is allowed.  IOW, only currently pending or running
>  * work items on @wq can queue further work items on it.  @wq is flushed
>  * repeatedly until it becomes empty.  The number of flushing is determined
>  * by the depth of chaining and should be relatively short.  Whine if it
>  * takes too long.
>
> but why limited to "only currently pending or running work items on @wq" (that is,
> only process context) ?
>
> Although drain_workqueue() is also called from destroy_workqueue() (which would cause
> use-after-free bug if interrupt handler calls queue_work() some time after drain_workqueue()),
> I think that we can wait for drain_workqueue() to call __flush_workqueue() again if a further
> work item is queued from interrupt handler...

Which is correct because at that point it's expecting to only accept the
pending and chained pending work otherwise it will go on in circles and/or
just be unable to provide the functionality of draining work, right?

> Anyway, stopping all works and delayed works before calling
> drain_workqueue() would address this problem.

Only partially.

You also have to make sure that none of the works can be rearmed or
rescheduled after that point by any other context, e.g interrupts ...

Thanks,

        tglx