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authorRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>2010-10-01 08:54:17 +0200
committerRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>2010-10-01 08:54:17 +0200
commitef70fcc0cd5d98f5e2df82c9e598b47f351d4f66 (patch)
treeb801ba4d7ebb1155df68d530df49444ffa6252cc /kernel/sys.c
parentoprofile, arm: initialize perf_event pointers with NULL (diff)
parentoprofile, ARM: Release resources on failure (diff)
Merge branch 'oprofile/urgent' into oprofile/core
Conflicts: arch/arm/oprofile/common.c Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sys.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sys.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index e9ad44489828..7f5a0cd296a9 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -931,6 +931,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(setpgid, pid_t, pid, pid_t, pgid)
pgid = pid;
if (pgid < 0)
return -EINVAL;
+ rcu_read_lock();
/* From this point forward we keep holding onto the tasklist lock
* so that our parent does not change from under us. -DaveM
@@ -984,6 +985,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(setpgid, pid_t, pid, pid_t, pgid)
out:
/* All paths lead to here, thus we are safe. -DaveM */
write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
return err;
}