This is the first step (of two) in removing the kill_pgrp_info. All the users of this function are in kernel/signal.c, but all they need is to call __kill_pgrp_info() with the tasklist_lock read-locked.
Fortunately, one of its users is the kill_something_info(), which already needs this lock in one of its branches, so clean these branches up and call the __kill_pgrp_info() directly. Based on Oleg's view of how this function should look. Changes from v1: * Fixed double rcu_read_lock() in the if (pid > 0) branch. This caused udev die from segfault on FC3, as noticed by Andrew. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kernel/signal.c | 26 +++++++++++++++----------- 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index cc45a6b..a805c74 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -1134,14 +1134,22 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kill_pid_info_as_uid); static int kill_something_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, int pid) { int ret; - rcu_read_lock(); - if (!pid) { - ret = kill_pgrp_info(sig, info, task_pgrp(current)); - } else if (pid == -1) { + + if (pid > 0) { + rcu_read_lock(); + ret = kill_pid_info(sig, info, find_vpid(pid)); + rcu_read_unlock(); + return ret; + } + + read_lock(&tasklist_lock); + if (pid != -1) { + ret = __kill_pgrp_info(sig, info, + pid ? find_vpid(-pid) : task_pgrp(current)); + } else { int retval = 0, count = 0; struct task_struct * p; - read_lock(&tasklist_lock); for_each_process(p) { if (p->pid > 1 && !same_thread_group(p, current)) { int err = group_send_sig_info(sig, info, p); @@ -1150,14 +1158,10 @@ static int kill_something_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, int pid) retval = err; } } - read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); ret = count ? retval : -ESRCH; - } else if (pid < 0) { - ret = kill_pgrp_info(sig, info, find_vpid(-pid)); - } else { - ret = kill_pid_info(sig, info, find_vpid(pid)); } - rcu_read_unlock(); + read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); + return ret; } -- 1.5.3.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/