Re: [PATCH][RFC] Always unlock 'tasklist_lock' inkernel/exit.c::do_wait()

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:30:38 +0100 (CET) Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The Coverity checker spotted this. I think it has a point, but I'm not 
> intimate with this code so there could be somethingI'm missing.
> 
> It seems that kernel/exit.c::do_wait() does not always release 
> 'tasklist_lock'.

do_wait_thread() and ptrace_do_wait() will have released tasklist_lock
if they returned non-zero.

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