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Date:   Thu, 21 Oct 2021 09:07:00 +0200
From:   Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/20] exit/rtl8712: Replace the macro thread_exit with a
 simple return 0
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On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 12:44:05PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> The macro thread_exit is called is at the end of a function started
> with kthread_run.  The code in kthread_run has arranged things so a
> kernel thread can just return and do_exit will be called.
> 
> So just have the cmd_thread return instead of calling complete_and_exit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>