The patch titled
signals: check_kill_permission: remove tasklist_lock
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
signals-check_kill_permission-remove-tasklist_lock.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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Subject: signals: check_kill_permission: remove tasklist_lock
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Now that task_session() can't return a false NULL, check_kill_permission()
doesn't need tasklist_lock.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/signal.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN kernel/signal.c~signals-check_kill_permission-remove-tasklist_lock kernel/signal.c
--- a/kernel/signal.c~signals-check_kill_permission-remove-tasklist_lock
+++ a/kernel/signal.c
@@ -551,9 +551,7 @@ static int check_kill_permission(int sig
!capable(CAP_KILL)) {
switch (sig) {
case SIGCONT:
- read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
sid = task_session(t);
- read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
/*
* We don't return the error if sid == NULL. The
* task was unhashed, the caller must notice this.
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from oleg@xxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
posix-timers-bug-10460-discard-the-pending-signal-when-the-timer-is-destroyed.patch
workqueue-remove-redundant-function-invocation.patch
put_pid-make-sure-we-dont-free-the-live-pid.patch
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