The scand kthread can send dlm messages out, especially dlm remove messages to free memory for unused rsb on other nodes. To send out dlm messages it is required that midcomms is right initialized. This patch moves the midcomms start before scand is started. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: e7fd41792fc0 ("[DLM] The core of the DLM for GFS2/CLVM") Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/dlm/lockspace.c | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/dlm/lockspace.c b/fs/dlm/lockspace.c index d0b4e2181a5f..99bc96f90779 100644 --- a/fs/dlm/lockspace.c +++ b/fs/dlm/lockspace.c @@ -381,23 +381,23 @@ static int threads_start(void) { int error; - error = dlm_scand_start(); + /* Thread for sending/receiving messages for all lockspace's */ + error = dlm_midcomms_start(); if (error) { - log_print("cannot start dlm_scand thread %d", error); + log_print("cannot start dlm midcomms %d", error); goto fail; } - /* Thread for sending/receiving messages for all lockspace's */ - error = dlm_midcomms_start(); + error = dlm_scand_start(); if (error) { - log_print("cannot start dlm midcomms %d", error); - goto scand_fail; + log_print("cannot start dlm_scand thread %d", error); + goto midcomms_fail; } return 0; - scand_fail: - dlm_scand_stop(); + midcomms_fail: + dlm_midcomms_stop(); fail: return error; } -- 2.31.1