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Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 19:13:30 +0200
From: Kasper Dupont <kasperd@daimi.au.dk>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Race condition?
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Oliver Neukum wrote:
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> Am Freitag, 2. August 2002 15:46 schrieb Kasper Dupont:
> > Is there a race condition in this piece of code from do_fork in
> 
> It would seem so. Perhaps the BKL was taken previously.

I guess you are right. Looking closer on the following lines
I find a comment stating that nr_threads is protected by the
kernel lock, but I don't see a lock_kernel() anywhere in this
code. How about the next code using the nr_threads variable,
is that safe?

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