On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 01:06:51PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:25:26 -0400
> "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:24:26PM -0400, bfields wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 08:40:38AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > > In fact, I don't think you really need to take a reference till there's
> > > a chance the new thread will decrement the reference--and since the
> > > first thing the new thread does is take the mutex (which we're also
> > > holding here), you could wait till after the succesful kthread_create()
> > > to take the reference. But maybe that's more fragile. So I'd just
> > > move the module_get to right before the kthread_create().
> >
> > Anyway, that's very minor, and this all seems OK otherwise, so I might
> > make this one small modification and just apply if there's no further
> > comments.
> >
> > --b.
>
> Thanks. That sounds right to me. Let me know if you want me to formally
> respin the patch instead.
I went ahead and applied with that one change; results are in
git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux.git for-2.6.27
Thanks! It'll be good to have this taken care of.
--b.
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svc.c b/net/sunrpc/svc.c
index 77088bf..5a32cb7 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/svc.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/svc.c
@@ -657,14 +657,13 @@ svc_set_num_threads(struct svc_serv *serv, struct svc_pool *pool, int nrservs)
nrservs--;
chosen_pool = choose_pool(serv, pool, &state);
- __module_get(serv->sv_module);
rqstp = svc_prepare_thread(serv, chosen_pool);
if (IS_ERR(rqstp)) {
error = PTR_ERR(rqstp);
- module_put(serv->sv_module);
break;
}
+ __module_get(serv->sv_module);
task = kthread_create(serv->sv_function, rqstp, serv->sv_name);
if (IS_ERR(task)) {
error = PTR_ERR(task);
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