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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 <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>
Oleg Nesterov 10 years ago
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1 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 3 1
      net/core/pktgen.c

+ 3 - 1
net/core/pktgen.c

@@ -3572,8 +3572,10 @@ static int pktgen_thread_worker(void *arg)
 	pktgen_rem_thread(t);
 	pktgen_rem_thread(t);
 
 
 	/* Wait for kthread_stop */
 	/* Wait for kthread_stop */
-	while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
+	for (;;) {
 		set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
 		set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
+		if (kthread_should_stop())
+			break;
 		schedule();
 		schedule();
 	}
 	}
 	__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
 	__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);