Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm] Freezer: Do not allow freezing processes toclear TIF_SIGPENDING

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Oct 19 2007 - 03:56:29 EST


On Fri 2007-10-19 00:22:35, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
>
> Do not allow processes to clear their TIF_SIGPENDING if TIF_FREEZE is set,
> to prevent them from racing with the freezer (like mysqld does, for example).
>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>

ACK. We want this in 2.6.24.
Pavel

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