linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2] kthread: zero the kthread data structure

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Date:   Tue, 7 Nov 2017 12:45:38 -0700
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Shaohua Li <shli@...com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] kthread: zero the kthread data structure

On 11/07/2017 12:09 PM, Shaohua Li wrote:
> kthread() could bail out early before we initialize blkcg_css (if the
> kthread is killed very early. Please see xchg() statement in kthread()),
> which confuses free_kthread_struct. Instead of moving the blkcg_css
> initialization early, we simply zero the whole 'self' data structure,
> which doesn't sound much overhead.

Applied, thanks Shaohua.

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Jens Axboe