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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/signal.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index 3d3adb94561d..b0b43a4ad8dd 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -1050,17 +1050,26 @@ int kill_pgrp_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct pid *pgrp) int kill_pid_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct pid *pid) { - int error; + int error = -ESRCH; struct task_struct *p; rcu_read_lock(); if (unlikely(sig_needs_tasklist(sig))) read_lock(&tasklist_lock); +retry: p = pid_task(pid, PIDTYPE_PID); - error = -ESRCH; - if (p) + if (p) { error = group_send_sig_info(sig, info, p); + if (unlikely(error == -ESRCH)) + /* + * The task was unhashed in between, try again. + * If it is dead, pid_task() will return NULL, + * if we race with de_thread() it will find the + * new leader. + */ + goto retry; + } if (unlikely(sig_needs_tasklist(sig))) read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); |