From: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@xxxxxxxxxxx> When gc thread creatio failed, mark gc_thread as NULL to avoid crash while trying to stop invalid thread in stop_gc_thread->kthread_stop. Instead make it return from: if (!gc_th) return; Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Amit Sahrawat <a.sahrawat@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/f2fs/gc.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/f2fs/gc.c b/fs/f2fs/gc.c index d344784..21f3ec6 100644 --- a/fs/f2fs/gc.c +++ b/fs/f2fs/gc.c @@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ int start_gc_thread(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi) "f2fs_gc-%s", dev_name(sbi->sb->s_bdi->dev)); if (IS_ERR(gc_th->f2fs_gc_task)) { kfree(gc_th); + sbi->gc_thread = NULL; return -ENOMEM; } return 0; -- 1.7.9.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html