[023/152] EDAC: Fix workqueue-related crashes

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Jan 05 2011 - 19:59:12 EST


2.6.36-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@xxxxxxx>

commit bb31b3122c0dd07d2d958da17a50ad771ce79e2b upstream.

00740c58541b6087d78418cebca1fcb86dc6077d changed edac_core to
un-/register a workqueue item only if a lowlevel driver supplies a
polling routine. Normally, when we remove a polling low-level driver, we
go and cancel all the queued work. However, the workqueue unreg happens
based on the ->op_state setting, and edac_mc_del_mc() sets this to
OP_OFFLINE _before_ we cancel the work item, leading to NULL ptr oops on
the workqueue list.

Fix it by putting the unreg stuff in proper order.

Reported-and-tested-by: Tobias Karnat <tobias.karnat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <1291201307.3029.21.camel@Tobias-Karnat>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
drivers/edac/edac_mc.c | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/edac/edac_mc.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/edac_mc.c
@@ -578,14 +578,16 @@ struct mem_ctl_info *edac_mc_del_mc(stru
return NULL;
}

- /* marking MCI offline */
- mci->op_state = OP_OFFLINE;
-
del_mc_from_global_list(mci);
mutex_unlock(&mem_ctls_mutex);

- /* flush workq processes and remove sysfs */
+ /* flush workq processes */
edac_mc_workq_teardown(mci);
+
+ /* marking MCI offline */
+ mci->op_state = OP_OFFLINE;
+
+ /* remove from sysfs */
edac_remove_sysfs_mci_device(mci);

edac_printk(KERN_INFO, EDAC_MC,


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