Re: + aio-completion-signal-notification.patch added to -mm tree

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 01/25, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> Sebastien Dugue wrote:
> >
> > +	if (iocb->ki_notify.notify != SIGEV_NONE) {
> > +		ret = aio_send_signal(&iocb->ki_notify);
> > +
> > +		/* If signal generation failed, release the sigqueue */
> > +		if (ret)
> > +			sigqueue_free(iocb->ki_notify.sigq);
> 
> We should not use sigqueue_free() here. It takes current->sighand->siglock
> to remove sigqueue from "struct sigpending". But current is just a "random"
> process here.

... and it is possible that current->sighand == NULL.

Oleg.

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