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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/md/md.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c index aa72c88a024f..44a164965546 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -2840,16 +2840,6 @@ mdk_thread_t *md_register_thread(void (*run) (mddev_t *), mddev_t *mddev, return thread; } -static void md_interrupt_thread(mdk_thread_t *thread) -{ - if (!thread->tsk) { - MD_BUG(); - return; - } - dprintk("interrupting MD-thread pid %d\n", thread->tsk->pid); - send_sig(SIGKILL, thread->tsk, 1); -} - void md_unregister_thread(mdk_thread_t *thread) { struct completion event; @@ -2857,9 +2847,15 @@ void md_unregister_thread(mdk_thread_t *thread) init_completion(&event); thread->event = &event; + + /* As soon as ->run is set to NULL, the task could disappear, + * so we need to hold tasklist_lock until we have sent the signal + */ + dprintk("interrupting MD-thread pid %d\n", thread->tsk->pid); + read_lock(&tasklist_lock); thread->run = NULL; - thread->name = NULL; - md_interrupt_thread(thread); + send_sig(SIGKILL, thread->tsk, 1); + read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); wait_for_completion(&event); kfree(thread); } |