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)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 9 Jul 2015 22:05:32 +0000 (15:05 -0700)
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>
net/core/pktgen.c

index 05badbb588659eaba8db986900f22f104d498dc0..41489e3c69af020bae4a083ec728a02b453f348f 100644 (file)
@@ -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);