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authorMike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>2010-12-16 15:09:52 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-01-04 15:10:34 +0100
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parentsched: Remove redundant CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED ifdef (diff)
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sched, autogroup: Fix potential access to freed memory
Oleg pointed out that the /proc interface kref_get() useage may race with the final put during autogroup_move_group(). A signal->autogroup assignment may be in flight when the /proc interface dereference, leaving them taking a reference to an already dead group. Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1292508592.5940.28.camel@maggy.simson.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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