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| author |   Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2010-08-15 01:06:31 -0400 |
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| committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2010-08-15 01:06:31 -0400 |
| commit | 95ee46aa8698f2000647dfb362400fadbb5807cf (patch) | |
| tree | e5a05c7297f997e191c73091934e42e3195c0e40 /kernel/exit.c | |
| parent | gcc-4.6: ACPI: fix unused but set variables in ACPI (diff) | |
| parent | Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linus' into release
Conflicts:
drivers/acpi/debug.c
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/exit.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/exit.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index ceffc67b564a..671ed56e0a49 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -771,9 +771,12 @@ static void forget_original_parent(struct task_struct *father) struct task_struct *p, *n, *reaper; LIST_HEAD(dead_children); - exit_ptrace(father); - write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock); + /* + * Note that exit_ptrace() and find_new_reaper() might + * drop tasklist_lock and reacquire it. + */ + exit_ptrace(father); reaper = find_new_reaper(father); list_for_each_entry_safe(p, n, &father->children, sibling) { |