From 7001510d0cbf51ad202dd2d0744f54104285cbb9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:11:14 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] copy_process: cleanup bad_fork_cleanup_sighand The only caller of exit_sighand(tsk) is copy_process's error path. We can call __exit_sighand() directly and kill exit_sighand(). This 'tsk' was not yet registered in pid_hash[] or init_task.tasks, it has no external references, nobody can see it, and IF (clone_flags & CLONE_SIGHAND) At least 'current' has a reference to ->sighand, this means atomic_dec_and_test(sighand->count) can't be true. ELSE Nobody can see this ->sighand, this means we can free it without any locking. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/signal.c | 14 -------------- 1 file changed, 14 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/signal.c') diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index c5b65aa4c2b..1d7f4463c32 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -336,20 +336,6 @@ void __exit_sighand(struct task_struct *tsk) kmem_cache_free(sighand_cachep, sighand); } -void exit_sighand(struct task_struct *tsk) -{ - write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock); - rcu_read_lock(); - if (tsk->sighand != NULL) { - struct sighand_struct *sighand = rcu_dereference(tsk->sighand); - spin_lock(&sighand->siglock); - __exit_sighand(tsk); - spin_unlock(&sighand->siglock); - } - rcu_read_unlock(); - write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock); -} - /* * This function expects the tasklist_lock write-locked. */ -- cgit v1.2.3