linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ____call_usermodehelper: don't flush

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Date:	Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:45:36 +1100
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ibm.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ____call_usermodehelper: don't flush_signals()

On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 00:53 +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> ____call_usermodehelper() has no reason for flush_signals(). It is a fresh
> forked process which is going to exec a user-space application or exit on
> failure.

And the flush_signal_handlers() call?

Your patch looks correct; this code was presumably lying around from
before someone (I?) adapted this code to use kthread.

Thanks,
Rusty.


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