vmstat: allocate vmstat_wq before it is used
kernel test robot has reported the following crash:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
00000100
IP: [<
c1074df6>] __queue_work+0x26/0x390
*pdpt =
0000000000000000 *pde =
f000ff53f000ff53 *pde =
f000ff53f000ff53
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT PREEMPT SMP SMP
CPU: 0 PID: 24 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted
4.4.0-rc4-00139-g373ccbe #1
Workqueue: events vmstat_shepherd
task:
cb684600 ti:
cb7ba000 task.ti:
cb7ba000
EIP: 0060:[<
c1074df6>] EFLAGS:
00010046 CPU: 0
EIP is at __queue_work+0x26/0x390
EAX:
00000046 EBX:
cbb37800 ECX:
cbb37800 EDX:
00000000
ESI:
00000000 EDI:
00000000 EBP:
cb7bbe68 ESP:
cb7bbe38
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
CR0:
8005003b CR2:
00000100 CR3:
01fd5000 CR4:
000006b0
Stack:
Call Trace:
__queue_delayed_work+0xa1/0x160
queue_delayed_work_on+0x36/0x60
vmstat_shepherd+0xad/0xf0
process_one_work+0x1aa/0x4c0
worker_thread+0x41/0x440
kthread+0xb0/0xd0
ret_from_kernel_thread+0x21/0x40
The reason is that start_shepherd_timer schedules the shepherd work item
which uses vmstat_wq (vmstat_shepherd) before setup_vmstat allocates
that workqueue so if the further initialization takes more than HZ we
might end up scheduling on a NULL vmstat_wq. This is really unlikely
but not impossible.
Fixes: 373ccbe59270 ("mm, vmstat: allow WQ concurrency to discover memory reclaim doesn't make any progress")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <ying.huang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>