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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>2006-03-28 16:11:16 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-28 18:36:42 -0800
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[PATCH] copy_process: cleanup bad_fork_cleanup_signal
__exit_signal() does important cleanups atomically under ->siglock. It is also called from copy_process's error path. This is not good, for example we can't move __unhash_process() under ->siglock for that reason. We should not mix these 2 paths, just look at ugly 'if (p->sighand)' under 'bad_fork_cleanup_sighand:' label. For copy_process() case it is sufficient to just backout copy_signal(), nothing more. Again, nobody can see this task yet. For CLONE_THREAD case we just decrement signal->count, otherwise nobody can see this ->signal and we can free it lockless. This patch assumes it is safe to do exit_thread_group_keys() without tasklist_lock. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index 15e1d97..3af03b1 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -210,7 +210,6 @@ extern kmem_cache_t *names_cachep;
extern kmem_cache_t *files_cachep;
extern kmem_cache_t *filp_cachep;
extern kmem_cache_t *fs_cachep;
-extern kmem_cache_t *signal_cachep;
extern kmem_cache_t *sighand_cachep;
extern kmem_cache_t *bio_cachep;
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