kthread: kill task_get_live_kthread()

task_get_live_kthread() looks confusing and unneeded.  It does
get_task_struct() but only kthread_stop() needs this, it can be called
even if the calller doesn't have a reference when we know that this
kthread can't exit until we do kthread_stop().

kthread_park() and kthread_unpark() do not need get_task_struct(), the
callers already have the reference.  And it can not help if we can race
with the exiting kthread anyway, kthread_park() can hang forever in this
case.

Change kthread_park() and kthread_unpark() to use to_live_kthread(),
change kthread_stop() to do get_task_struct() by hand and remove
task_get_live_kthread().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <[email protected]>
Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

kernel/kthread.c

@@ -324,12 +324,6 @@ struct task_struct *kthread_create_on_cpu(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
 	return p;
 }
 
-static struct kthread *task_get_live_kthread(struct task_struct *k)
-{
-	get_task_struct(k);
-	return to_live_kthread(k);
-}
-
 static void __kthread_unpark(struct task_struct *k, struct kthread *kthread)
 {
 	clear_bit(KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK, &kthread->flags);
@@ -356,11 +350,10 @@ static void __kthread_unpark(struct task_struct *k, struct kthread *kthread)
  */
 void kthread_unpark(struct task_struct *k)
 {
-	struct kthread *kthread = task_get_live_kthread(k);
+	struct kthread *kthread = to_live_kthread(k);
 
 	if (kthread)
 		__kthread_unpark(k, kthread);
-	put_task_struct(k);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -377,7 +370,7 @@ void kthread_unpark(struct task_struct *k)
  */
 int kthread_park(struct task_struct *k)
 {
-	struct kthread *kthread = task_get_live_kthread(k);
+	struct kthread *kthread = to_live_kthread(k);
 	int ret = -ENOSYS;
 
 	if (kthread) {
@@ -390,7 +383,6 @@ int kthread_park(struct task_struct *k)
 		}
 		ret = 0;
 	}
-	put_task_struct(k);
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -411,21 +403,23 @@ int kthread_park(struct task_struct *k)
  */
 int kthread_stop(struct task_struct *k)
 {
-	struct kthread *kthread = task_get_live_kthread(k);
+	struct kthread *kthread;
 	int ret;
 
 	trace_sched_kthread_stop(k);
+
+	get_task_struct(k);
+	kthread = to_live_kthread(k);
 	if (kthread) {
 		set_bit(KTHREAD_SHOULD_STOP, &kthread->flags);
 		__kthread_unpark(k, kthread);
 		wake_up_process(k);
 		wait_for_completion(&kthread->exited);
 	}
 	ret = k->exit_code;
-
 	put_task_struct(k);
-	trace_sched_kthread_stop_ret(ret);
 
+	trace_sched_kthread_stop_ret(ret);
 	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_stop);