Re: [PATCH 2/2] fix kill_proc_info() vs fork() theoretical race

[Oleg Nesterov]

"Paul E. McKenney" wrote:
> 
> The other thing to think through is tkill on a thread/process while it
> is being created.  I believe that this is OK, since thread-specific
> kill must target a specific thread, so does not do the traversal.
> 

Also, tkill was not converted to use rcu_read_lock yet, it still
takes tasklist_lock, so I think it is safe.

Oleg.
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