[PATCH] files: fix preemption issues
With the new fdtable locking rules, you have to protect fdtable with either
->file_lock or rcu_read_lock/unlock(). There are some places where we
aren't doing either. This patch fixes those places.
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 6d2089a..ee6d8b8 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -371,6 +371,12 @@
struct fdtable *fdt;
j = 0;
+
+ /*
+ * It is safe to dereference the fd table without RCU or
+ * ->file_lock because this is the last reference to the
+ * files structure.
+ */
fdt = files_fdtable(files);
for (;;) {
unsigned long set;
