[PATCH] rcu: Avoid kthread_stop on invalid pointer if rcutorture reader startup fails
authorJosh Triplett <josht@us.ibm.com>
Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:17:11 +0000 (02:17 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:55:30 +0000 (07:55 -0700)
commit2860aaba4dc87fa43c08724434b87a8650f3bff5
tree5c9a4ec9c571352174cbe4fd8d7eb125f53e0c30
parent3c29e03d9121e07714fb9e5303d9b026800ffd5a
[PATCH] rcu: Avoid kthread_stop on invalid pointer if rcutorture reader startup fails

rcu_torture_init kmallocs the array of reader threads, then creates each
one with kthread_run, cleaning up with rcu_torture_cleanup if this fails.
rcu_torture_cleanup calls kthread_stop on any non-NULL pointer in the
array; however, any readers after the one that failed to start up will have
invalid pointers, not null pointers.  Avoid this by using kzalloc instead.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
kernel/rcutorture.c