Re: Fw: 2.5.61 oops running SDET

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> 
> So what does protect sighand? tasklist_lock?

Yup. At least right now. And we do tend to hold tasklist_lock in most
cases simply by virtue of having to get it anyway in order to search for 
the process. 

>				It doesn't seem to
> as people do things like:
> 
> spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
> 
> all the time ... so is it just protected by good faith and the direction
> of the wind?

Agreed.  That, and the fact that most of the time the stuff _is_ there:  
obviously any time the process looks at its own signals it will always be
there.

So we have two cases:
 - "normal" signal sending which holds tasklist_lock to find the target.
 - signals to the process itself, which is usually safe, since we know 
   we're there (the exception would be if/when taking a fault in the exit
   path, but even that might be ok since signals are torn down not by exit
   itself but by "release_task")

So the signal path may actually be ok.

		Linus