(Taken from https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200647)

'get_unused_fd_flags' in kthread cause kernel crash.  It works fine on
4.1, but causes crash after get 64 fds.  It also cause crash on
ubuntu1404/1604/1804, centos7.5, and the crash messages are almost the
same.

The crash message on centos7.5 shows below:

  start fd 61
  start fd 62
  start fd 63
  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
  IP: __wake_up_common+0x2e/0x90
  PGD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  Modules linked in: test(OE) xt_CHECKSUM iptable_mangle ipt_MASQUERADE nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4 iptable_nat nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_conntrack nf_conntrack ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 tun bridge stp llc ebtable_filter ebtables ip6table_filter ip6_tables iptable_filter devlink sunrpc kvm_intel kvm irqbypass crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel lrw gf128mul glue_helper ablk_helper cryptd sg ppdev pcspkr virtio_balloon parport_pc parport i2c_piix4 joydev ip_tables xfs libcrc32c sr_mod cdrom sd_mod crc_t10dif crct10dif_generic ata_generic pata_acpi virtio_scsi virtio_console virtio_net cirrus drm_kms_helper syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops ttm crct10dif_pclmul crct10dif_common crc32c_intel drm ata_piix serio_raw libata virtio_pci virtio_ring i2c_core
   virtio floppy dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod
  CPU: 2 PID: 1820 Comm: test_fd Kdump: loaded Tainted: G           OE  ------------   3.10.0-862.3.3.el7.x86_64 #1
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.10.2-0-g5f4c7b1-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014
  task: ffff8e92b9431fa0 ti: ffff8e94247a0000 task.ti: ffff8e94247a0000
  RIP: 0010:__wake_up_common+0x2e/0x90
  RSP: 0018:ffff8e94247a2d18  EFLAGS: 00010086
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff9d09daa0 RCX: 0000000000000000
  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: ffffffff9d09daa0
  RBP: ffff8e94247a2d50 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff8e92b95dfda8
  R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff9d09daa8
  R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000003
  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8e9434e80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000017c686000 CR4: 00000000000207e0
  Call Trace:
    __wake_up+0x39/0x50
    expand_files+0x131/0x250
    __alloc_fd+0x47/0x170
    get_unused_fd_flags+0x30/0x40
    test_fd+0x12a/0x1c0 [test]
    kthread+0xd1/0xe0
    ret_from_fork_nospec_begin+0x21/0x21
  Code: 66 90 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 89 f7 41 56 41 89 ce 41 55 41 54 49 89 fc 49 83 c4 08 53 48 83 ec 10 48 8b 47 08 89 55 cc 4c 89 45 d0 <48> 8b 08 49 39 c4 48 8d 78 e8 4c 8d 69 e8 75 08 eb 3b 4c 89 ef
  RIP   __wake_up_common+0x2e/0x90
   RSP <ffff8e94247a2d18>
  CR2: 0000000000000000

This issue exists since CentOS 7.5 3.10.0-862 and CentOS 7.4
(3.10.0-693.21.1 ) is ok.  Root cause: the item 'resize_wait' is not
initialized before being used.
Reported-by: NRichard Zhang <zhang.zijian@h3c.com>
Reviewed-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>