Re: 2.6.8.1-mm1

[Andrew Morton]

Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I found this to be due to task leak in exit code. In release_task:
> 
>  	a. Task is removed from task-list (unhash_process)
>  	b. More processing is done (like proc_pid_flush etc)
>  	   before task finally dies.
> 
>  The problem is the task can get preempted between a and b.

It seems wrong that a task can be preempted so late in its lifetime.  We're
just asking for nasty bugs by permitting that.
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