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authorBreno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>2026-04-28 08:10:43 -0700
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2026-04-28 06:13:40 -1000
commit0de4cb473aed57ee4ba7e0551ad27bddc19fc519 (patch)
tree30c6901cabd8cc421ab60e20e999fd7d069bcd92
parentdca922e019dd758b4c1b4bec8f1d509efddeaab4 (diff)
workqueue: fix devm_alloc_workqueue() va_list misuse
devm_alloc_workqueue() built a va_list and passed it as a single positional argument to the variadic alloc_workqueue() macro: va_start(args, max_active); wq = alloc_workqueue(fmt, flags, max_active, args); va_end(args); C does not allow forwarding a va_list through a ... parameter. alloc_workqueue() expands to alloc_workqueue_noprof(), which runs its own va_start() over its ... params, so the inner vsnprintf(wq->name, sizeof(wq->name), fmt, args) in __alloc_workqueue() received the outer va_list object as the first variadic slot rather than the caller's actual format arguments. Add a new static helper alloc_workqueue_va() that wraps __alloc_workqueue() and runs wq_init_lockdep() on success, and fold both alloc_workqueue_noprof() and devm_alloc_workqueue_noprof() onto it as suggested by Tejun. The wq_init_lockdep() step is required on the devm path too, otherwise __flush_workqueue()'s on-stack COMPLETION_INITIALIZER_ONSTACK_MAP would NULL-deref wq->lockdep_map. No caller changes are required. devm_alloc_ordered_workqueue() is a macro forwarding to devm_alloc_workqueue() and inherits the fix. Two in-tree callers actively trigger the broken path on every probe: drivers/power/supply/mt6370-charger.c:889 drivers/power/supply/max77705_charger.c:649 both of which use devm_alloc_ordered_workqueue(dev, "%s", 0, dev_name(dev)). A standalone reproducer module is available at[1]. Link: https://github.com/leitao/debug/blob/main/workqueue/valist/wq_va_test.c [1] Fixes: 1dfc9d60a69e ("workqueue: devres: Add device-managed allocate workqueue") Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/workqueue.h6
-rw-r--r--kernel/workqueue.c28
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/workqueue.h b/include/linux/workqueue.h
index ab6cb70ca1a52..6177624539b3b 100644
--- a/include/linux/workqueue.h
+++ b/include/linux/workqueue.h
@@ -534,8 +534,10 @@ alloc_workqueue_noprof(const char *fmt, unsigned int flags, int max_active, ...)
* Pointer to the allocated workqueue on success, %NULL on failure.
*/
__printf(2, 5) struct workqueue_struct *
-devm_alloc_workqueue(struct device *dev, const char *fmt, unsigned int flags,
- int max_active, ...);
+devm_alloc_workqueue_noprof(struct device *dev, const char *fmt,
+ unsigned int flags, int max_active, ...);
+#define devm_alloc_workqueue(...) \
+ alloc_hooks(devm_alloc_workqueue_noprof(__VA_ARGS__))
#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
/**
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 5f747f241a5f1..24d0265191d46 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -5906,6 +5906,20 @@ err_destroy:
return NULL;
}
+static struct workqueue_struct *alloc_workqueue_va(const char *fmt,
+ unsigned int flags,
+ int max_active,
+ va_list args)
+{
+ struct workqueue_struct *wq;
+
+ wq = __alloc_workqueue(fmt, flags, max_active, args);
+ if (wq)
+ wq_init_lockdep(wq);
+
+ return wq;
+}
+
__printf(1, 4)
struct workqueue_struct *alloc_workqueue_noprof(const char *fmt,
unsigned int flags,
@@ -5915,12 +5929,8 @@ struct workqueue_struct *alloc_workqueue_noprof(const char *fmt,
va_list args;
va_start(args, max_active);
- wq = __alloc_workqueue(fmt, flags, max_active, args);
+ wq = alloc_workqueue_va(fmt, flags, max_active, args);
va_end(args);
- if (!wq)
- return NULL;
-
- wq_init_lockdep(wq);
return wq;
}
@@ -5932,15 +5942,15 @@ static void devm_workqueue_release(void *res)
}
__printf(2, 5) struct workqueue_struct *
-devm_alloc_workqueue(struct device *dev, const char *fmt, unsigned int flags,
- int max_active, ...)
+devm_alloc_workqueue_noprof(struct device *dev, const char *fmt,
+ unsigned int flags, int max_active, ...)
{
struct workqueue_struct *wq;
va_list args;
int ret;
va_start(args, max_active);
- wq = alloc_workqueue(fmt, flags, max_active, args);
+ wq = alloc_workqueue_va(fmt, flags, max_active, args);
va_end(args);
if (!wq)
return NULL;
@@ -5951,7 +5961,7 @@ devm_alloc_workqueue(struct device *dev, const char *fmt, unsigned int flags,
return wq;
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_alloc_workqueue);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_alloc_workqueue_noprof);
#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
__printf(1, 5)