linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESENT] dm: Check kthread

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Date:	Wed, 6 Jul 2016 21:27:55 +0800
From:	Minfei Huang <mnghuan@...il.com>
To:	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>
Cc:	agk@...hat.com, shli@...nel.org, dm-devel@...hat.com,
	linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESENT] dm: Check kthread_run's return value

On 07/06/16 at 09:16P, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 04 2016 at 11:25am -0400,
> Minfei Huang <mnghuan@...il.com> 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@...il.com>
> 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