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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v12 22/22] selftests/vm: Fix deadlock in protection_keys.c
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    On 02/21/2018 05:55 PM, Ram Pai wrote:
    > From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    >
    > The sig_chld() handler calls dprintf2() taking care of setting
    > dprint_in_signal so that sigsafe_printf() won't call printf().
    > Unfortunately, this precaution is is negated by dprintf_level(), which
    > has a call to fflush().
    >
    > This function acquires a lock, which means that if the signal interrupts an
    > ongoing fflush() the process will deadlock. At least on powerpc this is
    > easy to trigger, resulting in the following backtrace when attaching to the
    > frozen process:

    Ugh, yeah, I've run into this too.

    Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>

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