[Devel] Re: [PATCH] Check for error returned by kthread_create on creating journal thread

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 03:10:42PM +0400, Pavel Emelianov wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:41:14AM +0400, Pavel Emelianov wrote:
> >> 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.
> > 
> >> --- ./fs/jbd/journal.c.jbdthreads	2007-04-16 11:17:36.000000000 +0400
> >> +++ ./fs/jbd/journal.c	2007-04-16 11:30:09.000000000 +0400
> >> @@ -211,10 +211,16 @@ 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);
> > 
> > Note that this wait_event should exist at all, and the return
> 
> Should NOT you mean?

Umm, yes - of course :)

> > value of kthread_run should be assigned to journal->j_task.  Also
> > the code doesn't use the kthread primitives in other places leading
> > to crufty code.
> 
> Well, this could be done with a separate patch, I think.