linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/8] sysrq: Properly check for kernel threads

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Date:	Wed, 8 Feb 2012 17:46:15 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@...aro.org>
cc:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] sysrq: Properly check for kernel threads

On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Anton Vorontsov wrote:

> There's a real possibility of killing kernel threads that might
> have issued use_mm(), so kthread's mm might become non-NULL.
> 
> This patch fixes the issue by checking for PF_KTHREAD (just as
> get_task_mm()).
> 
> Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@...aro.org>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>

Definitely needed.
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