Re: [PATCH] padata: Replace delayed timer with immediate workqueue in padata_reorder

[Daniel Jordan]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 11:31:31AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 02:32:27PM -0400, Daniel Jordan wrote:
> >
> > We'll crash when cpumask_next_wrap returns nr_cpumask_bits and later try to get
> > the corresponding per-cpu queue.
> 
> The whole point of cpumask_next_wrap is to wrap around to the
> beginning when it hits nr_cpumask_bits.  So it cannot return
> nr_cpumask_bits.

That's what I expected when I first saw it too, but nr_cpumask_bits is returned
to signal the end of the iteration.  The patch always passes 0 for the 'start'
argument, so when cpumask_next_wrap is called with the last cpu in the mask,
the end-of-iteration case is triggered.  To reassure you and myself :) I ran it
and got the expected crash.

Passing pd->cpu for the start argument instead avoids that problem, but the
one-cpu-in-mask case still needs handling because cpumask_next_wrap always
signals end of iteration for that, hence the cpumask_weight check.