staging: usbip: fix the usage of kthread_stop()
stub_shutdown_connection() and vhci_shutdown_connection() use task_is_dead() before kthread_stop(). This buys nothing and wrong. kthread_stop() is fine even if this thread is dead. However, if it is dead nothing protects this task_struct, we shouldn't touch this memory. Change the code to do the necessary get_task_struct/put_task_struct. This patch assumes that - xxx_shutdown_connection() is always called, so we can't leak the task_struct. - kthread_stop_put() can't be called twice on the same task. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> Cc: Matt Mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>, Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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