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authorAnton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>2012-02-07 10:49:39 +0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-02-09 21:03:29 +0400
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tree6964ef225b6eded57757425c6faf3c59d1d0c21e /kernel/spinlock.c
parent6f56d0f43656deb98c6366a133a75b5a7cf73a26 (diff)
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sysrq: Fix possible race with exiting task
sysrq should grab the tasklist lock, otherwise calling force_sig() is not safe, as it might race with exiting task, which ->sighand might be set to NULL already. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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