From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:43:48 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [PATCH] fork.c: proc_fork_connector() called under write_lock()
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.15-rc3~28
X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c13cf856cbe16aec3007604dc013cbf3a16c6686;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git

[PATCH] fork.c: proc_fork_connector() called under write_lock()

Don't do that - it does GFP_KERNEL allocations, for a start.

(Reported by Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net>)

Acked-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 1c1cf8dc396..d0d49879ab7 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1135,13 +1135,13 @@ static task_t *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
 			__get_cpu_var(process_counts)++;
 	}
 
-	proc_fork_connector(p);
 	if (!current->signal->tty && p->signal->tty)
 		p->signal->tty = NULL;
 
 	nr_threads++;
 	total_forks++;
 	write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
+	proc_fork_connector(p);
 	retval = 0;
 
 fork_out: