From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Namjae Jeon Subject: [PATCH 4/6] f2fs: mark gc_thread as NULL when thread creation failed Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 23:52:42 +0900 Message-ID: <1359816762-16355-1-git-send-email-linkinjeon@gmail.com> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Namjae Jeon , Namjae Jeon , Amit Sahrawat To: jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org From: Namjae Jeon When gc thread creatio failed, mark gc_thread as NULL to avoid crash while trying to stop invalid thread in stop_gc_thread->kthread_stop. Instead make it return from: if (!gc_th) return; Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon Signed-off-by: Amit Sahrawat --- fs/f2fs/gc.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/f2fs/gc.c b/fs/f2fs/gc.c index d344784..21f3ec6 100644 --- a/fs/f2fs/gc.c +++ b/fs/f2fs/gc.c @@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ int start_gc_thread(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi) "f2fs_gc-%s", dev_name(sbi->sb->s_bdi->dev)); if (IS_ERR(gc_th->f2fs_gc_task)) { kfree(gc_th); + sbi->gc_thread = NULL; return -ENOMEM; } return 0; -- 1.7.9.5