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| author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> | 2008-04-30 00:52:45 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-04-30 08:29:34 -0700 |
| commit | 6ca25b551309eb1b1b41f83414a92f7472e0b23d (patch) | |
| tree | a2c5785ec484ec997ac6a03d3fceae04e4d21795 | |
| parent | e442055193e4584218006e616c9bdce0c5e9ae5c (diff) | |
kill_pid_info: don't take now unneeded tasklist_lock
Previously handle_stop_signal(SIGCONT) could drop ->siglock. That is why
kill_pid_info(SIGCONT) takes tasklist_lock to make sure the target task can't
go away after unlock. Not needed now.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/signal.h | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/signal.c | 7 |
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/signal.h b/include/linux/signal.h index 42d2e0a948f..84f997f8aa5 100644 --- a/include/linux/signal.h +++ b/include/linux/signal.h @@ -362,8 +362,6 @@ int unhandled_signal(struct task_struct *tsk, int sig); #define sig_kernel_stop(sig) \ (((sig) < SIGRTMIN) && siginmask(sig, SIG_KERNEL_STOP_MASK)) -#define sig_needs_tasklist(sig) ((sig) == SIGCONT) - #define sig_user_defined(t, signr) \ (((t)->sighand->action[(signr)-1].sa.sa_handler != SIG_DFL) && \ ((t)->sighand->action[(signr)-1].sa.sa_handler != SIG_IGN)) diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index 115c04f3f14..ce53ab19c21 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -1039,9 +1039,6 @@ int kill_pid_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct pid *pid) struct task_struct *p; rcu_read_lock(); - if (unlikely(sig_needs_tasklist(sig))) - read_lock(&tasklist_lock); - retry: p = pid_task(pid, PIDTYPE_PID); if (p) { @@ -1055,10 +1052,8 @@ retry: */ goto retry; } - - if (unlikely(sig_needs_tasklist(sig))) - read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); rcu_read_unlock(); + return error; } |