Re: [PATCH RESENT] dm: Check kthread_run's return value

From: Minfei Huang
Date: Wed Jul 06 2016 - 09:28:03 EST


On 07/06/16 at 09:16P, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 04 2016 at 11:25am -0400,
> Minfei Huang <mnghuan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > kthread function is used to process kthread_work. And there is no return
> > value checking during create this thread. Add this checking to fix this
> > issue.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Minfei Huang <mnghuan@xxxxxxxxx>
> This needed rebasing against linux-dm.git's 'for-next'. I've now staged
> this fix for 4.8 inclusion, see:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=7193a9defcab6f3d3f1eb64c68bad7534e5a39ad

Seems that we should fix it in stable as well.

Thanks
Minfei