workqueue: fix race condition in flush_workqueue()

When one flusher is cascading to the next flusher, it first sets
wq->first_flusher to the next one and sets up the next flush cycle.
If there's nothing to do for the next cycle, it clears
wq->flush_flusher and proceeds to the one after that.

If the woken up flusher checks wq->first_flusher before it gets
cleared, it will incorrectly assume the role of the first flusher,
which triggers BUG_ON() sanity check.

Fix it by checking wq->first_flusher again after grabbing the mutex.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 558733801ac..b59c946433f 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -2138,6 +2138,10 @@ void flush_workqueue(struct workqueue_struct *wq)
 
 	mutex_lock(&wq->flush_mutex);
 
+	/* we might have raced, check again with mutex held */
+	if (wq->first_flusher != &this_flusher)
+		goto out_unlock;
+
 	wq->first_flusher = NULL;
 
 	BUG_ON(!list_empty(&this_flusher.list));