f2fs: mark gc_thread as NULL when thread creation is failed
authorNamjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Sat, 2 Feb 2013 14:52:42 +0000 (23:52 +0900)
committerJaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:15:02 +0000 (07:15 +0900)
When gc thread creation is failed, mark gc_thread as NULL to avoid
crash while trying to stop invalid thread in stop_gc_thread->kthread_stop.
Instead make it return from:
if (!gc_th)
       return;

Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Amit Sahrawat <a.sahrawat@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
fs/f2fs/gc.c

index b1e4985..16fdec3 100644 (file)
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ int start_gc_thread(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
                        "f2fs_gc-%u:%u", MAJOR(dev), MINOR(dev));
        if (IS_ERR(gc_th->f2fs_gc_task)) {
                kfree(gc_th);
+               sbi->gc_thread = NULL;
                return -ENOMEM;
        }
        return 0;