Re: [PATCH] vt: Make vt_pid a struct pid (making it pid wrap around safe).

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Mon Sep 11 2006 - 11:09:59 EST


On 09/10, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> The patch:
> [PATCH] vt: Rework the console spawning variables.
> is fine.
>
> The patch:
> [PATCH] vt: Make vt_pid a struct pid (making it pid wrap around safe).
> which uses xchg() is racy, and needs to be fixed.

Yes, I think so.

Oleg.

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