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| author | Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> | 2026-04-28 08:10:43 -0700 |
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| committer | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2026-04-28 06:13:40 -1000 |
| commit | 0de4cb473aed57ee4ba7e0551ad27bddc19fc519 (patch) | |
| tree | 30c6901cabd8cc421ab60e20e999fd7d069bcd92 /kernel/workqueue.c | |
| parent | dca922e019dd758b4c1b4bec8f1d509efddeaab4 (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/workqueue.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/workqueue.c | 28 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c index 5f747f241a5f..24d0265191d4 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) |
