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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2021-06-22 13:56:50 -0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2021-06-22 13:56:50 -0300
commitce09673636f9581d2e2e24af785c463c030a1fd8 (patch)
tree5d696220bd70dcad7cc0809cf6e3225b4953bf05 /drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
parent45237f9898fce54a8cc6d40f7455291e0e6c4277 (diff)
parenta96bfed64c8986d6404e553f18203cae1f5ac7e6 (diff)
Merge remote-tracking branch 'torvalds/master' into perf/core
To pick up fixes, since perf/urgent is already upstream. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
index 193b723fe3bd..c58996c1e230 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
@@ -684,6 +684,7 @@ static void xenvif_disconnect_queue(struct xenvif_queue *queue)
{
if (queue->task) {
kthread_stop(queue->task);
+ put_task_struct(queue->task);
queue->task = NULL;
}
@@ -745,6 +746,11 @@ int xenvif_connect_data(struct xenvif_queue *queue,
if (IS_ERR(task))
goto kthread_err;
queue->task = task;
+ /*
+ * Take a reference to the task in order to prevent it from being freed
+ * if the thread function returns before kthread_stop is called.
+ */
+ get_task_struct(task);
task = kthread_run(xenvif_dealloc_kthread, queue,
"%s-dealloc", queue->name);