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* [PATCH] Small bugfix in signal code in exec.c
@ 2001-11-28 17:14 Dave McCracken
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From: Dave McCracken @ 2001-11-28 17:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Marcelo Tosatti, Linus Torvalds, Linux Kernel


Here's a small bug, not likely to be hit often, but likely painful if it
does trigger.

Dave McCracken

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Dave McCracken          IBM Linux Base Kernel Team      1-512-838-3059
dmccr@us.ibm.com                                        T/L   678-3059


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--- linux-2.4.16/fs/exec.c	Fri Nov  2 19:39:20 2001
+++ linux-2.4.16/fs/exec.c.new	Wed Nov 28 11:06:25 2001
@@ -586,7 +586,7 @@
 flush_failed:
 	spin_lock_irq(&current->sigmask_lock);
 	if (current->sig != oldsig) {
-		kfree(current->sig);
+		kmem_cache_free(sigact_cachep, current->sig);
 		current->sig = oldsig;
 	}
 	spin_unlock_irq(&current->sigmask_lock);


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