On Mon, Jul 04 2016 at 11:25am -0400,
Minfei Huang <mnghuan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> kthread function is used to process kthread_work. And there is no return
> value checking during create this thread. Add this checking to fix this
> issue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Minfei Huang <mnghuan@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/md/dm.c | 11 +++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c
> index 1b2f962..d68b9d2 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
> @@ -2654,12 +2654,15 @@ struct queue_limits *dm_get_queue_limits(struct mapped_device *md)
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dm_get_queue_limits);
>
> -static void dm_old_init_rq_based_worker_thread(struct mapped_device *md)
> +static int dm_old_init_rq_based_worker_thread(struct mapped_device *md)
> {
> /* Initialize the request-based DM worker thread */
> init_kthread_worker(&md->kworker);
> md->kworker_task = kthread_run(kthread_worker_fn, &md->kworker,
> "kdmwork-%s", dm_device_name(md));
> + if (IS_ERR(md->kworker_task))
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + return 0;
> }
>
> /*
> @@ -2667,6 +2670,8 @@ static void dm_old_init_rq_based_worker_thread(struct mapped_device *md)
> */
> static int dm_old_init_request_queue(struct mapped_device *md)
> {
> + int ret;
> +
> /* Fully initialize the queue */
> if (!blk_init_allocated_queue(md->queue, dm_request_fn, NULL))
> return -EINVAL;
> @@ -2678,7 +2683,9 @@ static int dm_old_init_request_queue(struct mapped_device *md)
> blk_queue_softirq_done(md->queue, dm_softirq_done);
> blk_queue_prep_rq(md->queue, dm_old_prep_fn);
>
> - dm_old_init_rq_based_worker_thread(md);
> + ret = dm_old_init_rq_based_worker_thread(md);
> + if (ret < 0)
> + return ret;
>
> elv_register_queue(md->queue);
>
This needed rebasing against linux-dm.git's 'for-next'. I've now staged
this fix for 4.8 inclusion, see:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=7193a9defcab6f3d3f1eb64c68bad7534e5a39ad
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