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 <o...@redhat.com> Reported-by: Jan Stancek <jstan...@redhat.com> Reported-by: Marcelo Leitner <mleit...@redhat.com> --- net/core/pktgen.c | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/pktgen.c b/net/core/pktgen.c index 508155b..043ea18 100644 --- a/net/core/pktgen.c +++ b/net/core/pktgen.c @@ -3490,8 +3490,10 @@ 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); -- 1.5.5.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html