Re: [PATCH v1 04/12] f2fs: cache: introduce writeback thread

[Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>]

On 8/23/26 20:54, Wenjie Qi wrote:
> Hi Chao,
> 
>> cache_thread->cache_wb_task = kthread_run(f2fs_cache_writeback_kthread,
>> 						sbi, "%s", name);
>> if (IS_ERR(cache_thread->cache_wb_task))
>> 	return PTR_ERR(cache_thread->cache_wb_task);
> 
> After `kthread_run()` returns an error pointer, `cache_wb_task` retains that
> value.  The later startup and stop paths distinguish only NULL from non-NULL,
> and the stop path passes a non-NULL value to `kthread_stop()`.
> 
> Is `cache_wb_task` expected to remain an error pointer after
> `f2fs_start_cache_wb_thread()` returns an error?

Will fix.

Thanks,