[PATCH 0/1] dlm: kill the unnecessary and wrongdevice_close()->recalc_sigpending()

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Fri Aug 09 2013 - 11:24:44 EST


On 08/08, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> And of course, there could be another bug. I just did
> "grep recalc_sigpending" and immediately found at least one buggy
> user, fs/dlm/user.c which calls it lockless.

and the usage of sigprocmask() is wrong, see 1/1.

In fact there are more users which play with sigprocmask() this way.
I am starting to think that, perhaps, we should implement some helpers
for this use-case.

Oleg.

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