This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
uwb: properly check kthread_run return value
to my usb git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git
in the usb-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From bbf26183b7a6236ba602f4d6a2f7cade35bba043 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 14:30:55 +0200
Subject: uwb: properly check kthread_run return value
uwbd_start() calls kthread_run() and checks that the return value is
not NULL. But the return value is not NULL in case kthread_run() fails,
it takes the form of ERR_PTR(-EINTR).
Use IS_ERR() instead.
Also add a check to uwbd_stop().
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/uwb/uwbd.c | 12 ++++++++----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/uwb/uwbd.c b/drivers/uwb/uwbd.c
index 01c20a260a8b..39dd4ef53c77 100644
--- a/drivers/uwb/uwbd.c
+++ b/drivers/uwb/uwbd.c
@@ -302,18 +302,22 @@ static int uwbd(void *param)
/** Start the UWB daemon */
void uwbd_start(struct uwb_rc *rc)
{
- rc->uwbd.task = kthread_run(uwbd, rc, "uwbd");
- if (rc->uwbd.task == NULL)
+ struct task_struct *task = kthread_run(uwbd, rc, "uwbd");
+ if (IS_ERR(task)) {
+ rc->uwbd.task = NULL;
printk(KERN_ERR "UWB: Cannot start management daemon; "
"UWB won't work\n");
- else
+ } else {
+ rc->uwbd.task = task;
rc->uwbd.pid = rc->uwbd.task->pid;
+ }
}
/* Stop the UWB daemon and free any unprocessed events */
void uwbd_stop(struct uwb_rc *rc)
{
- kthread_stop(rc->uwbd.task);
+ if (rc->uwbd.task)
+ kthread_stop(rc->uwbd.task);
uwbd_flush(rc);
}
--
2.14.1