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SubjectRe: [PATCH -mm 2/3] proc: make collect_sigign_sigcatch() rcu-safe
On 04/09, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> > In theory, this ->sighand can be re-used under us (but it can't go away).
> > We could check task->sighand == sighand once again after the main loop
> > to prevent the race with exit/exec, but I don't think this is really
> > needed for fs/proc.
>
> In v2.6.34-rc3-500-g0eddb51 this isn't possible because the calls from
> task_sig() and do_task_stat() are under siglock.

Yes sure. If it is called under ->siglock we have no races we should
worry about.

> Is that locking removed
> by another pending change?

Yes, the next 3/3 patch.

Oleg.



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