From 78b620ce9e168d08ecfac2f4bb056c511b0601ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:05:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] vhost: stop worker only if created
Its currently illegal to call kthread_stop(NULL)
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
index e05557d52999..4b99117f3ecd 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c
@@ -323,7 +323,10 @@ void vhost_dev_cleanup(struct vhost_dev *dev)
dev->mm = NULL;
WARN_ON(!list_empty(&dev->work_list));
- kthread_stop(dev->worker);
+ if (dev->worker) {
+ kthread_stop(dev->worker);
+ dev->worker = NULL;
+ }
}
static int log_access_ok(void __user *log_base, u64 addr, unsigned long sz)
--
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