Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jul 2014 11:07:22 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drbd: fix regression 'out of mem, failed to invoke fence-peer helper' |
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On 2014-07-09 21:18, Philipp Reisner wrote: > From: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com> > > Since linux kernel 3.13, kthread_run() internally uses > wait_for_completion_killable(). We sometimes may use kthread_run() > while we still have a signal pending, which we used to kick our threads > out of potentially blocking network functions, causing kthread_run() to > mistake that as a new fatal signal and fail. > > Fix: flush_signals() before kthread_run().
Applied - should this have been marked stable, if it affects 3..13+ kernels?
-- Jens Axboe
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