net: pktgen: fix race between pktgen_thread_worker() and kthread_stop()
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Wed, 8 Jul 2015 19:42:11 +0000 (21:42 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 1 Oct 2015 10:07:35 +0000 (12:07 +0200)
commitf85eee641c7a3bb928a4b605db632c2e90b9574f
tree009382ffe5c9d3bf8066355f2ce62387149bea6b
parent7865ece30f06072ea61f7db2ebbe24b632800e17
net: pktgen: fix race between pktgen_thread_worker() and kthread_stop()

[ Upstream commit fecdf8be2d91e04b0a9a4f79ff06499a36f5d14f ]

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/core/pktgen.c