Commit c41247e1 authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney

signal: Explain local_irq_save() call

The explicit local_irq_save() in __lock_task_sighand() is needed to avoid
a potential deadlock condition, as noted in a841796f (signal:
align __lock_task_sighand() irq disabling and RCU).  However, someone
reading the code might be forgiven for concluding that this separate
local_irq_save() was completely unnecessary.  This commit therefore adds
a comment referencing the shiny new block comment on rcu_read_unlock().
Reported-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
parent ab74fdfd
......@@ -1263,6 +1263,10 @@ struct sighand_struct *__lock_task_sighand(struct task_struct *tsk,
struct sighand_struct *sighand;
for (;;) {
/*
* Disable interrupts early to avoid deadlocks.
* See rcu_read_unlock() comment header for details.
*/
local_irq_save(*flags);
rcu_read_lock();
sighand = rcu_dereference(tsk->sighand);
......
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