proc: loadavg reading race
The avenrun[] values are supposed to be protected by xtime_lock. loadavg_read_proc does not use it. Theoretically this may result in an occasional glitch when the value read from /proc/loadavg would be as much as 1<<11 times higher than it should be. Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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