Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: call force_sig_info before prints

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 04:07:12PM +0530, Maninder Singh wrote:
> prints can delay queuing of signal, so better to print
> after force_sig_info.
> 
> Let's say process generated SIGSEGV , and some other thread sends
> SIGKILL to crashing process and it gets queued before SIGSEGV becuase
> of little delay due to prints so in this case coredump might not generate.

In any case, that's going to be a race - you can't predict exactly when
the "other thread" will send the SIGKILL in relation to the SIGSEGV.

So, I don't see the point of this change.

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