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Commit 3547ff3a authored by Oleg Nesterov's avatar Oleg Nesterov Committed by Linus Torvalds
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signals: do_tkill: don't use tasklist_lock


Convert do_tkill() to use rcu_read_lock() + lock_task_sighand() to avoid
taking tasklist lock.

Note that we don't return an error if lock_task_sighand() fails, we pretend
the task dies after receiving the signal.  Otherwise, we should fight with the
nasty races with mt-exec without having any advantage.

Signed-off-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 6e65acba
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