Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Feb 2006 00:20:08 +0300 | From | Oleg Nesterov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] fix kill_proc_info() vs fork() theoretical race |
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"Paul E. McKenney" wrote: > > The other thing to think through is tkill on a thread/process while it > is being created. I believe that this is OK, since thread-specific > kill must target a specific thread, so does not do the traversal. >
Also, tkill was not converted to use rcu_read_lock yet, it still takes tasklist_lock, so I think it is safe.
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