init, sched: Fix race between init and kthreadd

commit b433c3d4549ae74935b585115f076c6fb7bc48fe upstream.

Ilya reported that on a very slow machine he could reliably
reproduce a race between forking init and kthreadd. We first
fork init so that it  obtains pid-1, however since the scheduler
is already fully running at this point it can preempt and run
the init thread before we spawn and set kthreadd_task.

The init thread can then attempt spawning kthreads without
kthreadd being present which results in an OOPS.

Reported-by: Ilya Loginov <isloginov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <1277736661.3561.110.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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