From 8d42db189ca99703f0f4f91c477cb54808c8eaaa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:52:55 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] signal: rewrite kill_something_info so it uses newer helpers The goal is to remove users of the old signal helper functions so they can be removed. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Alan Cox Cc: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/signal.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index 228fdb5c01d..de66def7164 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -1191,8 +1191,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kill_pid_info_as_uid); static int kill_something_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, int pid) { + int ret; + rcu_read_lock(); if (!pid) { - return kill_pg_info(sig, info, process_group(current)); + ret = kill_pgrp_info(sig, info, task_pgrp(current)); } else if (pid == -1) { int retval = 0, count = 0; struct task_struct * p; @@ -1207,12 +1209,14 @@ static int kill_something_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, int pid) } } read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); - return count ? retval : -ESRCH; + ret = count ? retval : -ESRCH; } else if (pid < 0) { - return kill_pg_info(sig, info, -pid); + ret = kill_pgrp_info(sig, info, find_pid(-pid)); } else { - return kill_proc_info(sig, info, pid); + ret = kill_pid_info(sig, info, find_pid(pid)); } + rcu_read_unlock(); + return ret; } /*