Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965305AbVKIIP6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 03:15:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965302AbVKIIP6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 03:15:58 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.93.40.71]:18618 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965305AbVKIIP6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Nov 2005 03:15:58 -0500 Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 00:14:25 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: akpm@osdl.org, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dipankar@hill9.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] tasklist-RCU fix in attach_pid() Message-ID: <20051109081425.GI29402@holomorphy.com> References: <20051109032233.GA3060@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051109032233.GA3060@us.ibm.com> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 536 Lines: 16 On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 07:22:34PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > Bug in attach_pid() can result in RCU readers in find_pid() getting > confused if they race with process creation. > Signed-off-by: Simple enough. Acked-by: William Irwin -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/