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-rw-r--r--mm/kmemleak.c12
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index e83987c55a08..46c2290a08f1 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -1657,8 +1657,7 @@ static void start_scan_thread(void)
}
/*
- * Stop the automatic memory scanning thread. This function must be called
- * with the scan_mutex held.
+ * Stop the automatic memory scanning thread.
*/
static void stop_scan_thread(void)
{
@@ -1921,12 +1920,15 @@ static void kmemleak_do_cleanup(struct work_struct *work)
{
stop_scan_thread();
+ mutex_lock(&scan_mutex);
/*
- * Once the scan thread has stopped, it is safe to no longer track
- * object freeing. Ordering of the scan thread stopping and the memory
- * accesses below is guaranteed by the kthread_stop() function.
+ * Once it is made sure that kmemleak_scan has stopped, it is safe to no
+ * longer track object freeing. Ordering of the scan thread stopping and
+ * the memory accesses below is guaranteed by the kthread_stop()
+ * function.
*/
kmemleak_free_enabled = 0;
+ mutex_unlock(&scan_mutex);
if (!kmemleak_found_leaks)
__kmemleak_do_cleanup();