Re: [PATCH 5/9] signal: Protect parent child relationships by childs siglock

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Wed Apr 27 2022 - 02:40:23 EST


On 2022-04-26 17:52:07 [-0500], Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> The functions ptrace_stop and do_signal_stop have to drop siglock
> and grab tasklist_lock because the parent/child relation ship
> is guarded by siglock and not siglock.

"is guarded by tasklist_lock and not siglock." ?

> Simplify things by guarding the parent/child relationship
> with siglock. For the most part this just requires a little bit
> of code motion. In a couple of places more locking was needed.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Sebastian