lightnvm: pblk: ensure kthread alloc. before kicking it

When creating the write thread, ensure that the kthread has been created
before initializing the timer responsible from kicking it. Otherwise, if
the kthread creation fails or gets killed from used space, we risk
kicking an empty thread structure.

Also, since the kthread creation can be interrupted form user space,
adapt the error path to not report an error when this happens, since it
is intentional that the instance creation is aborted.

Signed-off-by: Javier González <javier@cnexlabs.com>
Updated source to reflect the new timer_setup API.
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c
index 533f6908e238..7e11926830db 100644
--- a/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c
+++ b/drivers/lightnvm/pblk-init.c
@@ -883,15 +883,19 @@ fail:
 
 static int pblk_writer_init(struct pblk *pblk)
 {
-        timer_setup(&pblk->wtimer, pblk_write_timer_fn, 0);
-        mod_timer(&pblk->wtimer, jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(100));
-
         pblk->writer_ts = kthread_create(pblk_write_ts, pblk, "pblk-writer-t");
         if (IS_ERR(pblk->writer_ts)) {
-                pr_err("pblk: could not allocate writer kthread\n");
-                return PTR_ERR(pblk->writer_ts);
+                int err = PTR_ERR(pblk->writer_ts);
+
+                if (err != -EINTR)
+                        pr_err("pblk: could not allocate writer kthread (%d)\n",
+                                        err);
+                return err;
         }
 
+        timer_setup(&pblk->wtimer, pblk_write_timer_fn, 0);
+        mod_timer(&pblk->wtimer, jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(100));
+
         return 0;
 }
 
@@ -1042,7 +1046,8 @@ static void *pblk_init(struct nvm_tgt_dev *dev, struct gendisk *tdisk,
 
         ret = pblk_writer_init(pblk);
         if (ret) {
-                pr_err("pblk: could not initialize write thread\n");
+                if (ret != -EINTR)
+                        pr_err("pblk: could not initialize write thread\n");
                 goto fail_free_lines;
         }