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From: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:43:35 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/10] um: Should hold tasklist_lock while traversing processes
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On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 01:48:23PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 14:30 +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> > Traversing the tasks requires holding tasklist_lock, otherwise it
> > is unsafe. 
> 
> No it doesn't, it either requires tasklist_lock or rcu_read_lock().

Well, currently the code does neither. :-)

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Anton Vorontsov
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