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Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 18:50:05 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to lock current->signal->tty
Ar Maw, 2006-08-08 am 09:41 -0700, ysgrifennodd Luck, Tony:
> unaligned accesses at all is rather controversial. So its a 50-50
> shot whether I'll fix it by adding the mutex_lock/mutex_unlock
> around the use of current->signal->tty, or just rip this out and
> just leave the printk().
Personally I'd just rip it out full stop. Its trivial to use kprobes and
friends to audit such things if there is a performance concern.
Alan
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