[patch-2.4.0-test7-pre3] BUGfix for fs/exec.c

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Hi Linus,

Recently I merged Mark's sigact_cache with my fs_cache and you accepted
it. However, this contained a bug - not all allocations where switched
from generic cache to dedicated slab cache. The fix is below.

Regards,
Tigran

--- linux/fs/exec.c Mon Aug 14 08:10:58 2000
+++ work/fs/exec.c Mon Aug 14 18:09:45 2000
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@
 
         if (atomic_read(&current->sig->count) <= 1)
                 return 0;
- newsig = kmalloc(sizeof(*newsig), GFP_KERNEL);
+ newsig = kmem_cache_alloc(sigact_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
         if (newsig == NULL)
                 return -ENOMEM;
         spin_lock_init(&newsig->siglock);
@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@
         if (current->sig == oldsig)
                 return;
         if (atomic_dec_and_test(&oldsig->count))
- kfree(oldsig);
+ kmem_cache_free(sigact_cachep, oldsig);
 }
 
 /*

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