ext4: fix panic on module unload when stopping lazyinit thread
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27652
If the lazyinit thread is running, the teardown function
ext4_destroy_lazyinit_thread() has problems:
ext4_clear_request_list();
while (ext4_li_info->li_task) {
wake_up(&ext4_li_info->li_wait_daemon);
wait_event(ext4_li_info->li_wait_task,
ext4_li_info->li_task == NULL);
}
Clearing the request list will cause the thread to exit and free
ext4_li_info, so then we're waiting on something which is getting
freed.
Fix this up by making the thread respond to kthread_stop, and exit,
without the need to wait for that exit in some other homegrown way.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-and-Tested-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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