Re: w1_therm_read_bin: suspicious usage of flush_signals()

From: Evgeniy Polyakov
Date: Fri Jun 15 2007 - 00:29:27 EST


On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 09:24:39PM +0400, Oleg Nesterov (oleg@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> drivers/w1/slaves/w1_therm.c:w1_therm_read_bin()
>
> while (tm) {
> tm = msleep_interruptible(tm);
> if (signal_pending(current))
> flush_signals(current);
> }
>
> current is user-space task, yes?
>
> this looks just wrong, could you please explain?

Hi Oleg.

Well, it can be uninterruptible sleep, but why?
It is not allowed to return to userspace until transaction is completed,
so having uninterruptible sleep will result in exactly same lost of
signals.

> Oleg.

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Evgeniy Polyakov
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