Hello!
> All existing paths which write to the pid/uid/euid fields are protected by
> the BKL
euid? Are you about current->xxx? You jest, you read it, not write.
Well, and if you are going to say that reading is racy, then I wonder
why you started from this place, not from another users current->xxx,
which are really critical and surely cannot use bkl. :-)
> > But I daresay this is deadlock:
>
> Yep.
Ergo, never use BKL. :-)
Alexey
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