From fecdf8be2d91e04b0a9a4f79ff06499a36f5d14f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 21:42:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Reported-by: Jan Stancek Reported-by: Marcelo Leitner Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/pktgen.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/core/pktgen.c b/net/core/pktgen.c index 05badbb58865..41489e3c69af 100644 --- a/net/core/pktgen.c +++ b/net/core/pktgen.c @@ -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); -- 2.34.1