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

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Fri Oct 19 2007 - 17:19:30 EST


On Friday, 19 October 2007 09:55, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 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.

Sure, we do.

Greetings,
Rafael
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