Re: [PATCH 07/10] um: Should hold tasklist_lock while traversingprocesses

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Sat Mar 24 2012 - 07:12:42 EST


Am 24.03.2012 11:30, schrieb Anton Vorontsov:
> Traversing the tasks requires holding tasklist_lock, otherwise it
> is unsafe.
>
> p.s. However, I'm not sure that calling os_kill_ptraced_process()
> in the atomic context is correct. It seem to work, but please
> take a closer look.

os_kill_ptraced_process() calls a host function.
From UML's point of view nothing sleeps, so this is fine.

Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>

Thanks,
//richard

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