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Wen Congyang authored
If kthread_run() fails, pgdat->kswapd contains errno. When we stop this thread, we only check whether pgdat->kswapd is NULL and access it. If it contains errno, it will cause page fault. Reset pgdat->kswapd to NULL when creating kernel thread fails can avoid this problem. Signed-off-by:
Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by:
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wen Congyang authoredIf kthread_run() fails, pgdat->kswapd contains errno. When we stop this thread, we only check whether pgdat->kswapd is NULL and access it. If it contains errno, it will cause page fault. Reset pgdat->kswapd to NULL when creating kernel thread fails can avoid this problem. Signed-off-by:
Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by:
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>