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Commit 60f53782 authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney
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rcu: Prevent initialization race in rcutorture kthreads



When you do something like "t = kthread_run(...)", it is possible that
the kthread will start running before the assignment to "t" happens.
If the child kthread expects to find a pointer to its task_struct in "t",
it will then be fatally disappointed.  This commit therefore switches
such cases to kthread_create() followed by wake_up_process(), guaranteeing
that the assignment happens before the child kthread starts running.

Reported-by: default avatarFengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
parent 2caa1e44
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