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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2010-08-31 02:05:57 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-09-01 14:26:13 -0700
commit78b620ce9e168d08ecfac2f4bb056c511b0601ec (patch)
treed7e59a37b115f52215190a7461cec96bd0247fb2 /drivers/vhost
parentaa8a9e25c5e865de85410be4e9269b552974f7a2 (diff)
downloadlinux-78b620ce9e168d08ecfac2f4bb056c511b0601ec.tar.gz
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/vhost')
-rw-r--r--drivers/vhost/vhost.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
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)