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-rw-r--r--drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
index 7499b0cd8326..6768cb2dd740 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
@@ -1938,8 +1938,10 @@ static void check_for_broken_irqs(struct smi_info *smi_info)
static inline void stop_timer_and_thread(struct smi_info *smi_info)
{
- if (smi_info->thread != NULL)
+ if (smi_info->thread != NULL) {
kthread_stop(smi_info->thread);
+ smi_info->thread = NULL;
+ }
smi_info->timer_can_start = false;
if (smi_info->timer_running)