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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6.27-rc5] Fix itimer/many thread hang.
On 09/09, Frank Mayhar wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 20:01 +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > The patch has a lot of
> >
> > rcu_read_lock();
> > sig = rcu_dereference(tsk->signal);
> >
> > This is bogus, task_struct->signal is not protected by RCU.
>
> I just want to snapshot the field
> atomically. I guess I can just do an atomic read...

Missed this part...

No, no, you don't need an atomic read. Just do

sig = tsk->signal;
if (sig)
use(sig);

->signal must be stable, or the code is buggy anyway. (and the task
never changes its ->signal, it becomes NULL when the task dies).


BTW, thanks for doing this!

Oleg.



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