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-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/core.c3
-rw-r--r--kernel/workqueue.c6
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index f6b329bca0c6..c3d12e3762d4 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -4120,7 +4120,8 @@ static inline void sched_submit_work(struct task_struct *tsk)
* it wants to wake up a task to maintain concurrency.
* As this function is called inside the schedule() context,
* we disable preemption to avoid it calling schedule() again
- * in the possible wakeup of a kworker.
+ * in the possible wakeup of a kworker and because wq_worker_sleeping()
+ * requires it.
*/
if (tsk->flags & (PF_WQ_WORKER | PF_IO_WORKER)) {
preempt_disable();
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 3816a18c251e..891ccad5f271 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -858,7 +858,8 @@ void wq_worker_running(struct task_struct *task)
* @task: task going to sleep
*
* This function is called from schedule() when a busy worker is
- * going to sleep.
+ * going to sleep. Preemption needs to be disabled to protect ->sleeping
+ * assignment.
*/
void wq_worker_sleeping(struct task_struct *task)
{
@@ -875,7 +876,8 @@ void wq_worker_sleeping(struct task_struct *task)
pool = worker->pool;
- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(worker->sleeping))
+ /* Return if preempted before wq_worker_running() was reached */
+ if (worker->sleeping)
return;
worker->sleeping = 1;