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SubjectRe: [PATCH] de_thread: Don't confuse users do_each_thread.
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Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> writes:

> On 04/10, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>
>> I believe this is 2.6.17 material as the bug is present in
>> 2.6.17-rc1 and the fix is simple.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> + list_del_init(&leader->tasks);
>
> I beleive this is ok for 2.6.17-rc1, but this breaks lockless
> for_each_process/while_each_thread (I am talking about -mm tree).

Agreed.

> Andrew, could you please drop these ones:
>
> task-make-task-list-manipulations-rcu-safe-fix.patch
> task-make-task-list-manipulations-rcu-safe-fix-fix.patch
>
> Then we need this "patch" for de_thread:
>
> - list_add_tail_rcu(&current->tasks, &init_task.tasks);
> + list_replace_rcu(&leader->tasks, &current->tasks);
> ...
> - list_del_init(&leader->tasks);
>
> Currently I don't know how the code looks in -mm tree, I lost the plot.


Since the patches don't conflict on context I bet they are
all in there, at the moment. I am just about to see if I can
sort that out.

Eric
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