linux-kernel - [PATCH] signals: check_kill_permission: remove tasklist

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Date:	Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:10:03 +0300
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Atsushi Tsuji <a-tsuji@...jp.nec.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] signals: check_kill_permission: remove tasklist_lock

Now that task_session() can't return a false NULL, check_kill_permission()
doesn't need tasklist_lock.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>

--- 25/kernel/signal.c~5_CKP_NO_TASKLIST	2008-03-19 21:15:30.000000000 +0300
+++ 25/kernel/signal.c	2008-03-21 18:10:30.000000000 +0300
@@ -551,9 +551,7 @@ static int check_kill_permission(int sig
 	    !capable(CAP_KILL)) {
 		switch (sig) {
 		case SIGCONT:
-			read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
 			sid = task_session(t);
-			read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
 			/*
 			 * We don't return the error if sid == NULL. The
 			 * task was unhashed, the caller must notice this.

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