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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2006-04-13 06:49:07 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-04-13 14:59:12 -0400
commit20ac94378de59d61dc39f10ed5530485e4ac8c07 (patch)
tree80de96cdd506cf73e088b2be95079a3ff79c60a7 /drivers/char
parent907d91d708d9999bec0185d630062576ac4181a7 (diff)
[PATCH] do_SAK: Don't recursively take the tasklist_lock
By calling send_sig do_SAK is recursively taking the tasklist_lock, which is silly. In addition I just audited the kernel and this was the only place where tasklist_lock is taken inside of task_lock. So this one line change is a general worthwhile cleanup and it increases our options on how to fix the ptrace_attach races. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/tty_io.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
index f70a47eadb52..841f0bd3eaaf 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -2734,7 +2734,7 @@ static void __do_SAK(void *arg)
2734 printk(KERN_NOTICE "SAK: killed process %d" 2734 printk(KERN_NOTICE "SAK: killed process %d"
2735 " (%s): fd#%d opened to the tty\n", 2735 " (%s): fd#%d opened to the tty\n",
2736 p->pid, p->comm, i); 2736 p->pid, p->comm, i);
2737 send_sig(SIGKILL, p, 1); 2737 force_sig(SIGKILL, p);
2738 break; 2738 break;
2739 } 2739 }
2740 } 2740 }