devtmpfs: fix theoretical stale pointer deref in devtmpfsd()
After complete(&setup_done), devtmpfs_init proceeds and may actually return, invalidating the *err pointer, before devtmpfsd() proceeds to reading back *err. This is of course completely theoretical since the error conditions never trigger in practice, and even if they did, nobody cares about the exit value from a kernel thread, so it doesn't matter if we happen to read back some garbage from some other stack frame. Still, this isn't a pattern that should be copy-pasted, so fix it. Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200115184154.3492-2-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dkSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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