On Wed, Jul 06 2016 at 9:27am -0400, Minfei Huang <mngh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/06/16 at 09:16P, Mike Snitzer wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 04 2016 at 11:25am -0400, > > Minfei Huang <mngh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > kthread function is used to process kthread_work. And there is no return > > > value checking during create this thread. Add this checking to fix this > > > issue. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Minfei Huang <mngh...@gmail.com> > > This needed rebasing against linux-dm.git's 'for-next'. I've now staged > > this fix for 4.8 inclusion, see: > > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=7193a9defcab6f3d3f1eb64c68bad7534e5a39ad > > Seems that we should fix it in stable as well. Given the code movement it isn't easy to do (by simply adding a stable@ cc). I've not seen a single report of an ignored kthread_run() failure for multipath using .request_fn interface.
