Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 8 Feb 2012 17:46:36 -0800 (PST) | | From | David Rientjes <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/8] arm: Fix possible race on task->mm |
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On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> Checking for task->mm is dangerous as ->mm might disappear (exit_mm() > assigns NULL under task_lock(), so tasklist lock is not enough). > > We can't use get_task_mm()/mmput() pair as mmput() might sleep, > so let's take the task lock while we care about its mm. > > Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
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