linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 102/133] bcache: fix crash on shutdown in passthrough mode

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Date:   Wed, 22 Nov 2017 01:58:13 +0000
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Slava Pestov" <sp@...erainc.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 102/133] bcache: fix crash on shutdown in passthrough
 mode

3.16.51-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Slava Pestov <sp@...erainc.com>

commit a664d0f05a2ec02c8f042db536d84d15d6e19e81 upstream.

We never started the writeback thread in this case, so don't stop it.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
@@ -1073,7 +1073,8 @@ static void cached_dev_free(struct closu
 	struct cached_dev *dc = container_of(cl, struct cached_dev, disk.cl);
 
 	cancel_delayed_work_sync(&dc->writeback_rate_update);
-	kthread_stop(dc->writeback_thread);
+	if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dc->writeback_thread))
+		kthread_stop(dc->writeback_thread);
 
 	mutex_lock(&bch_register_lock);