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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>2008-02-08 04:19:18 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-08 09:22:28 -0800
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uglify kill_pid_info() to fix kill() vs exec() race
kill_pid_info()->pid_task() could be the old leader of the execing process. In that case it is possible that the leader will be released before we take siglock. This means that kill_pid_info() (and thus sys_kill()) can return a false -ESRCH. Change the code to retry when lock_task_sighand() fails. The endless loop is not possible, __exit_signal() both clears ->sighand and does detach_pid(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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