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Alexander Gordeev committed 05d74efa3c7
genirq: No need to check IRQTF_DIED before stopping a thread handler Since 63706172f332fd3f6e7458ebfb35fa6de9c21dc5 kthread_stop() is not afraid of dead kernel threads. So no need to check if a thread is alive before stopping it. These checks still were racy. Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120309135939.GC2114@dhcp-26-207.brq.redhat.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>