From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753782AbXLCQiu (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 11:38:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750763AbXLCQik (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 11:38:40 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:36871 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753402AbXLCQij (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Dec 2007 11:38:39 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 08:37:40 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Oleg Nesterov cc: Andrew Morton , Davide Libenzi , Ingo Molnar , Roland McGrath , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] fix the long standing exec vs kill race In-Reply-To: <20071202151454.GA13180@tv-sign.ru> Message-ID: References: <20071202151454.GA13180@tv-sign.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > Depends on > [PATCH] __group_complete_signal: fix coredump with group stop race > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119653436116036 > > Needs review and testing. > > Please comment, I think at least the idea is promising. It looks clean and sane to me, but I'm currently more worried about 2.6.24, and even the first patch this depends on (coredump/stop race) makes me a bit nervous since all these things tend to have some rather subtle interactions with other parts that depended on the exact semantics of all the signal issues. So my gut feel - considering that none of the problems involved here are exactly new - is that this is good material for early in the 2.6.25 cycle. But I think the whole series looks ok, and if people press me and convince me it's (a) well tested and (b) needed early, then I guess it can be pushed into 2.6.24. Anybody? Linus