Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:03:37 +0400 | From | Anton Vorontsov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sysrq: Use SEND_SIG_FORCED instead of force_sig() |
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On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 03:43:03PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:00:24 +0400 [...] > > > force_sig() can't kill the process if the main thread has already > > > exited. IOW, it is trivial to create the process which can't be > > > killed by sysrq. > > > > So, this patch fixes the issue. [...] > It's unclear how serious this race is (I'm guessing "not very"), but > this patch looks like 3.3 material anyway, yes?
Yep, 3.3 looks like a good target.
Thanks,
-- Anton Vorontsov Email: cbouatmailru@gmail.com
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