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>
Tue, 29 Sep 2015 17:26:21 +0000 (19:26 +0200)
commitfd08e0ccaa649064ca0df99eaadb58199be41970
treea2467904d2dac8b8ad901c33f4ccb13483ab61ee
parent27463fc0ab7a97bb0f311623f846f5f7c8457be8
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