Commit fecdf8be authored Jul 08, 2015 by Oleg Nesterov Committed by David S. Miller Jul 09, 2015

net: pktgen: fix race between pktgen_thread_worker() and kthread_stop()



pktgen_thread_worker() is obviously racy, kthread_stop() can come
between the kthread_should_stop() check and set_current_state().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Marcelo Leitner <mleitner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 4a0e3e98

net/core/pktgen.c

+3 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -3572,8 +3572,10 @@ static int pktgen_thread_worker(void *arg)
		pktgen_rem_thread(t);

		/* Wait for kthread_stop */
		while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
		for (;;) {
		set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
		if (kthread_should_stop())
		break;
		schedule();
		}
		__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);

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