Re: [PATCH] audit: cleanup prune_tree_thread

We can use kthread_run instead of kthread_create+wake_up_process for creating the thread. We do not need to set the task state to TASK_RUNNING after schedule(), the process is in that state already. And we do not need to set the state to TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE when not doing schedule() as we set the state to TASK_RUNNING immediately afterwards. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby(a)suse.cz&gt; Cc: Paul Moore <paul(a)paul-moore.com&gt; Cc: Eric Paris <eparis(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: <linux-audit(a)redhat.com&gt; --- kernel/audit_tree.c | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/audit_tree.c b/kernel/audit_tree.c index 5efe9b299a12..25772476fa4a 100644 --- a/kernel/audit_tree.c +++ b/kernel/audit_tree.c @@ -661,10 +661,10 @@ static int tag_mount(struct vfsmount *mnt, void *arg) static int prune_tree_thread(void *unused) { for (;;) { - set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); - if (list_empty(&prune_list)) + if (list_empty(&prune_list)) { + set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); schedule(); - __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); + } mutex_lock(&audit_cmd_mutex); mutex_lock(&audit_filter_mutex); @@ -693,16 +693,14 @@ static int audit_launch_prune(void) { if (prune_thread) return 0; - prune_thread = kthread_create(prune_tree_thread, NULL, + prune_thread = kthread_run(prune_tree_thread, NULL, "audit_prune_tree"); if (IS_ERR(prune_thread)) { pr_err("cannot start thread audit_prune_tree"); prune_thread = NULL; return -ENOMEM; - } else { - wake_up_process(prune_thread); - return 0; } + return 0; } /* called with audit_filter_mutex */