From: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysrq: Use SEND_SIG_FORCED instead of force_sig()
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:03:37 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120327130337.GA7972@lizard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120326154303.86126785.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 03:43:03PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:00:24 +0400
[...]
> > > force_sig() can't kill the process if the main thread has already
> > > exited. IOW, it is trivial to create the process which can't be
> > > killed by sysrq.
> >
> > So, this patch fixes the issue.
[...]
> It's unclear how serious this race is (I'm guessing "not very"), but
> this patch looks like 3.3 material anyway, yes?
Yep, 3.3 looks like a good target.
Thanks,
--
Anton Vorontsov
Email: cbouatmailru@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-27 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-24 11:00 [PATCH] sysrq: Use SEND_SIG_FORCED instead of force_sig() Anton Vorontsov
2012-03-26 22:43 ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-27 13:03 ` Anton Vorontsov [this message]
2012-03-28 20:52 ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-03-28 21:08 ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-28 21:26 ` Oleg Nesterov
[not found] <13288070803232@kroah.org>
[not found] ` <20120210201008.GA21009@redhat.com>
2012-02-14 22:50 ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-02-14 23:03 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2012-02-15 13:53 ` Oleg Nesterov
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