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)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Tue, 13 Oct 2015 02:46:12 +0000 (03:46 +0100)
[ 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: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
net/core/pktgen.c

Simple merge