Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:53:22 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1 |
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Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> wrote: > > I found this to be due to task leak in exit code. In release_task: > > a. Task is removed from task-list (unhash_process) > b. More processing is done (like proc_pid_flush etc) > before task finally dies. > > The problem is the task can get preempted between a and b.
It seems wrong that a task can be preempted so late in its lifetime. We're just asking for nasty bugs by permitting that. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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