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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2021-07-08 13:15:57 -0400
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2021-07-14 12:14:27 -0400
commitf3cf800778e9e76b2387d00c9bfbc2e16efdb7ed (patch)
tree783e27546a8d65df254f59b5a024dc42eb390582 /drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
parentb8917b4ae44d1b945f6fba3d8ee6777edb44633b (diff)
parentcd4220d23bf3f43cf720e82bdee681f383433ae2 (diff)
Merge tag 'kvm-s390-master-5.14-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvms390/linux into HEAD
KVM: selftests: Fixes - provide memory model for IBM z196 and zEC12 - do not require 64GB of memory
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
index 193b723fe3bd..c58996c1e230 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
@@ -684,6 +684,7 @@ static void xenvif_disconnect_queue(struct xenvif_queue *queue)
{
if (queue->task) {
kthread_stop(queue->task);
+ put_task_struct(queue->task);
queue->task = NULL;
}
@@ -745,6 +746,11 @@ int xenvif_connect_data(struct xenvif_queue *queue,
if (IS_ERR(task))
goto kthread_err;
queue->task = task;
+ /*
+ * Take a reference to the task in order to prevent it from being freed
+ * if the thread function returns before kthread_stop is called.
+ */
+ get_task_struct(task);
task = kthread_run(xenvif_dealloc_kthread, queue,
"%s-dealloc", queue->name);