From 12aebf3e1ad7dc8b076dd9674ca98f1aa6859fcd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:20:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] mtd: blktrans: fix a race vs kthread_stop
There is small race window that could make kthread_stop hang forever.
I found that while hacking the IR subsystem.
Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevisky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
---
drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c b/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c
index 040c2d923807..a919587ed481 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c
@@ -133,6 +133,10 @@ static int mtd_blktrans_thread(void *arg)
if (!req && !(req = blk_fetch_request(rq))) {
set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
+
+ if (kthread_should_stop())
+ set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
+
spin_unlock_irq(rq->queue_lock);
schedule();
spin_lock_irq(rq->queue_lock);
--
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