On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > I don't think 80de7c3138ee9fd86a98696fd2cf7ad89b995d0a is right fix.
It's certainly not a complete fix, but I think it's a much better result of the race, i.e. we don't panic anymore, we simply fail the read() instead. > we should > close a race (or kill remain ref count leak) if we still have. As I mentioned earlier in the thread, the read() is done here on a task while only a reference to the task_struct is taken and we do not hold task_lock() which is required for task->mempolicy. Once that is fixed, mpol_to_str() should never be called for !task->mempolicy so it will never need to return -EINVAL in such a condition. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/