From: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] um: Should hold tasklist_lock while traversing processes
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:40:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120423154027.GA23066@lizard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F956DF2.7020408@nod.at>
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 04:57:54PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> On 23.04.2012 09:09, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> >Traversing the tasks requires holding tasklist_lock, otherwise it
> >is unsafe.
> >
> >p.s. However, I'm not sure that calling os_kill_ptraced_process()
> >in the atomic context is correct. It seem to work, but please
> >take a closer look.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov<anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
> >---
>
> You forgot my Ack and I've already explained why
> os_kill_ptraced_process() is fine.
Ouch, sorry!
--
Anton Vorontsov
Email: cbouatmailru@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-23 15:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-23 7:06 [PATCH v3 0/9] Fixes for common mistakes w/ for_each_process and task->mm Anton Vorontsov
2012-04-23 7:07 ` [PATCH 1/9] cpu: Introduce clear_tasks_mm_cpumask() helper Anton Vorontsov
2012-04-26 23:59 ` Andrew Morton
2012-05-01 10:45 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-05 1:47 ` [PATCH] cpu: Document clear_tasks_mm_cpumask() Anton Vorontsov
2012-05-05 1:47 ` [PATCH 1/9] cpu: Introduce clear_tasks_mm_cpumask() helper Anton Vorontsov
2012-04-23 7:08 ` [PATCH 2/9] arm: Use clear_tasks_mm_cpumask() Anton Vorontsov
2012-04-23 7:08 ` [PATCH 3/9] powerpc: " Anton Vorontsov
2012-04-23 7:08 ` [PATCH 4/9] sh: " Anton Vorontsov
2012-04-23 7:09 ` [PATCH 5/9] blackfin: A couple of task->mm handling fixes Anton Vorontsov
2012-06-01 4:36 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-04-23 7:09 ` [PATCH 6/9] blackfin: Fix possible deadlock in decode_address() Anton Vorontsov
2012-04-23 7:09 ` [PATCH 7/9] um: Should hold tasklist_lock while traversing processes Anton Vorontsov
2012-04-23 14:57 ` Richard Weinberger
2012-04-23 15:40 ` Anton Vorontsov [this message]
2012-04-23 7:09 ` [PATCH 8/9] um: Fix possible race on task->mm Anton Vorontsov
2012-04-23 7:09 ` [PATCH 9/9] um: Properly check all process' threads for a live mm Anton Vorontsov
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