- jbd-check-for-error-returned-by-kthread_create-on-creating-journal-thread.patch removed from -mm tree

[akpm@linux-foundation.org]

The patch titled
     jbd: check for error returned by kthread_create on creating journal thread
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     jbd-check-for-error-returned-by-kthread_create-on-creating-journal-thread.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

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Subject: jbd: check for error returned by kthread_create on creating journal thread
From: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@sw.ru>

If the thread failed to create the subsequent wait_event will hang forever.

This is likely to happen if kernel hits max_threads limit.

Will be critical for virtualization systems that limit the number of tasks
and kernel memory usage within the container.

(akpm: JBD should be converted fully to the kthread API: kthread_should_stop()
and kthread_stop()).

Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 fs/jbd/journal.c  |   13 +++++++++----
 fs/jbd2/journal.c |   13 +++++++++----
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff -puN fs/jbd/journal.c~jbd-check-for-error-returned-by-kthread_create-on-creating-journal-thread fs/jbd/journal.c
--- a/fs/jbd/journal.c~jbd-check-for-error-returned-by-kthread_create-on-creating-journal-thread
+++ a/fs/jbd/journal.c
@@ -210,10 +210,16 @@ end_loop:
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static void journal_start_thread(journal_t *journal)
+static int journal_start_thread(journal_t *journal)
 {
-	kthread_run(kjournald, journal, "kjournald");
+	struct task_struct *t;
+
+	t = kthread_run(kjournald, journal, "kjournald");
+	if (IS_ERR(t))
+		return PTR_ERR(t);
+
 	wait_event(journal->j_wait_done_commit, journal->j_task != 0);
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static void journal_kill_thread(journal_t *journal)
@@ -839,8 +845,7 @@ static int journal_reset(journal_t *jour
 
 	/* Add the dynamic fields and write it to disk. */
 	journal_update_superblock(journal, 1);
-	journal_start_thread(journal);
-	return 0;
+	return journal_start_thread(journal);
 }
 
 /**
diff -puN fs/jbd2/journal.c~jbd-check-for-error-returned-by-kthread_create-on-creating-journal-thread fs/jbd2/journal.c
--- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c~jbd-check-for-error-returned-by-kthread_create-on-creating-journal-thread
+++ a/fs/jbd2/journal.c
@@ -210,10 +210,16 @@ end_loop:
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static void jbd2_journal_start_thread(journal_t *journal)
+static int jbd2_journal_start_thread(journal_t *journal)
 {
-	kthread_run(kjournald2, journal, "kjournald2");
+	struct task_struct *t;
+
+	t = kthread_run(kjournald2, journal, "kjournald2");
+	if (IS_ERR(t))
+		return PTR_ERR(t);
+
 	wait_event(journal->j_wait_done_commit, journal->j_task != 0);
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static void journal_kill_thread(journal_t *journal)
@@ -839,8 +845,7 @@ static int journal_reset(journal_t *jour
 
 	/* Add the dynamic fields and write it to disk. */
 	jbd2_journal_update_superblock(journal, 1);
-	jbd2_journal_start_thread(journal);
-	return 0;
+	return jbd2_journal_start_thread(journal);
 }
 
 /**
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from xemul@sw.ru are

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