On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 12:36:11PM +0200, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote: > Since "786235eeba0e1e85e5cbbb9f97d1087ad03dfa21 kthread: > make kthread_create() killable" kthread_run can be killed by the user, > ie, by killing modprobe. > - flush_kthread_worker(&master->kworker); > - kthread_stop(master->kworker_task); > + if (!IS_ERR(master->kworker_task)) { > + flush_kthread_worker(&master->kworker); > + kthread_stop(master->kworker_task); > + } How does this fix avoid racing with the task being killed? It will improve things but it doesn't look like a full fix. Please don't include entire backtraces in commit messages, they're typically extremely long and don't really add anything - edited highlights are fine but try to keep it to the point.
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