[dm-devel] [PATCH RESENT] dm: Check kthread_run's return value

[Minfei Huang]

On 07/06/16 at 09:16P, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 04 2016 at 11:25am -0400,
> Minfei Huang <mnghuan at 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 <mnghuan at 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.

Thanks
Minfei