Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Jul 1998 23:45:30 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.111 SMP fix in sys_wait4() |
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On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Eric PAIRE wrote: > > The p_[o]pptr links are modified without any lock held when a debugged ZOMBIE > task status is got by the debugger task. I think that the links should be > modified with tasklist_lock exclusively help since they can be modified in > parallel by forget_original_parent(). I suggest the enclosed patch for 2.1.111 > to fix this potential (and extremely unfrequent :-) SMP problem.
Looks good, applied.
Linus
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