Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Dec 2004 15:37:16 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] AB-BA deadlock between uidhash_lock and tasklist_lock. |
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On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Andrew Morton wrote: > > hrm. Why don't we just do this?
Seems sane enough. Nobody should look at somebody elses user anyway. The signal code does, though. That's a separate bug (and looks harmless), and that code doesn't hold tasklist_lock anyway, so the lock doesn't matter for that thing.
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