[PATCH] exit_notify: don't take tasklist for TIF_SIGPENDING re-targeting

[Oleg Nesterov]

->siglock provides enough protection to iterate over the thread group.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>

--- t/kernel/exit.c~3_SIGPEND	2007-08-05 18:54:09.000000000 +0400
+++ t/kernel/exit.c	2007-08-05 19:16:38.000000000 +0400
@@ -756,13 +756,11 @@ static void exit_notify(struct task_stru
 		 * Now we'll wake all the threads in the group just to make
 		 * sure someone gets all the pending signals.
 		 */
-		read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
 		spin_lock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
 		for (t = next_thread(tsk); t != tsk; t = next_thread(t))
 			if (!signal_pending(t) && !(t->flags & PF_EXITING))
 				recalc_sigpending_and_wake(t);
 		spin_unlock_irq(&tsk->sighand->siglock);
-		read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
 	}
 
 	write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
@@ -790,9 +788,8 @@ static void exit_notify(struct task_stru
 	 * and we were the only connection outside, so our pgrp
 	 * is about to become orphaned.
 	 */
-	 
 	t = tsk->real_parent;
-	
+
 	pgrp = task_pgrp(tsk);
 	if ((task_pgrp(t) != pgrp) &&
 	    (task_session(t) == task_session(tsk)) &&

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