Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 02 Aug 2002 19:13:30 +0200 | From | Kasper Dupont <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Race condition? |
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Oliver Neukum wrote: > > Am Freitag, 2. August 2002 15:46 schrieb Kasper Dupont: > > Is there a race condition in this piece of code from do_fork in > > It would seem so. Perhaps the BKL was taken previously.
I guess you are right. Looking closer on the following lines I find a comment stating that nr_threads is protected by the kernel lock, but I don't see a lock_kernel() anywhere in this code. How about the next code using the nr_threads variable, is that safe?
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