Merge branch 'pktgen-races'

davem330 · davem330 · commit fc5778ca3f3c · 2015-07-09T15:05:33.000-07:00
Oleg Nesterov says:

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

I am not familiar with this code and I have no idea how to test
these changes, so 2/2 comes as a separate change. 1/2 looks like
the obvious bugfix, and probably candidate for -stable.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
diff --git a/net/core/pktgen.c b/net/core/pktgen.c
@@ -3571,13 +3571,6 @@ static int pktgen_thread_worker(void *arg)
 	pr_debug("%s removing thread\n", t->tsk->comm);
 	pktgen_rem_thread(t);
 
-	/* Wait for kthread_stop */
-	while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
-		set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
-		schedule();
-	}
-	__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
-
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -3769,6 +3762,7 @@ static int __net_init pktgen_create_thread(int cpu, struct pktgen_net *pn)
 	}
 
 	t->net = pn;
+	get_task_struct(p);
 	wake_up_process(p);
 	wait_for_completion(&t->start_done);
 
@@ -3891,6 +3885,7 @@ static void __net_exit pg_net_exit(struct net *net)
 		t = list_entry(q, struct pktgen_thread, th_list);
 		list_del(&t->th_list);
 		kthread_stop(t->tsk);
+		put_task_struct(t->tsk);
 		kfree(t);
 	}
 
