Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 May 2003 06:29:48 -0400 (EDT) | From | Zwane Mwaikambo <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH][2.5] Possible race in wait_task_zombie and finish_task_switch |
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On Sun, 25 May 2003, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> On Sun, 25 May 2003, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > > > if (prev->state & (TASK_DEAD | TASK_ZOMBIE)) > > put_task_struct(prev); > > we initialize tsk->usage with 2 in fork() - are you sure the removal of > the above code will not result in a memory leak?
Isn't current the forked task? Also we initialise the forked task's state to TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE.
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