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Date:   Thu, 25 Feb 2021 13:08:02 +0100
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From:   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To:     Anton Yakovlev <anton.yakovlev@opensynergy.com>
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On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 12:51:36 +0100,
Anton Yakovlev wrote:
> 
> > Now I'm wondering whether it's safe to do that from this place.
> > Basically device_reprobe() unbinds the device that releases the full
> > resources once including the devm_* stuff.  And this work itself is in
> > a part of devm allocated resource, so it'll be released there.  That
> > said, we might hit use-after-free...  This needs to be verified.
> 
> It's safe. Suicide kernel workers are funny but possible things. Since
> the kernel itself (AFAIU) assumes such a situation and does not access
> the worker structure after the callback function call.

Indeed, process_one_work() in workqueue.c assures no access to the
work object after the callback.  Then this must be fine.  Good to
know!


thanks,

Takashi