From fecdf8be2d91e04b0a9a4f79ff06499a36f5d14f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 21:42:11 +0200
Subject: net: pktgen: fix race between pktgen_thread_worker() and
 kthread_stop()

pktgen_thread_worker() is obviously racy, kthread_stop() can come
between the kthread_should_stop() check and set_current_state().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Marcelo Leitner <mleitner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
 net/core/pktgen.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'net')

diff --git a/net/core/pktgen.c b/net/core/pktgen.c
index 05badbb58865..41489e3c69af 100644
--- a/net/core/pktgen.c
+++ b/net/core/pktgen.c
@@ -3572,8 +3572,10 @@ static int pktgen_thread_worker(void *arg)
 	pktgen_rem_thread(t);
 
 	/* Wait for kthread_stop */
-	while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
+	for (;;) {
 		set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
+		if (kthread_should_stop())
+			break;
 		schedule();
 	}
 	__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
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