down the thread just adds extra complexity with no real benefit. This patch changes the code to use the original method to bring down the thread, but still leaves it so that the thread is actually started with kthread_run. This seems to fix the deadlock caused by the reproducer in this bug report: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5720 Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Steve French °Zø¼”7x