[PATCH] 9p: Use kthread_stop instead of sending a SIGKILL.

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On 12/12/06, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com> wrote:
>
> Since the kthread api does not bump the reference count on
> processes that tracked it is not safe allow user space to
> kill the threads, as I still retain a pointer to the task_struct.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com>

Finally unstacking to my patch queue.

Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergren <ericvh at gmail.com>


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