From: Sripathi Kodi This patch makes ptrace_attach use write_trylock_irqsave(). Signed-off-by: Sripathi Kodi Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- kernel/ptrace.c | 7 +++---- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/ptrace.c~use-write_trylock_irqsave-in-ptrace_attach kernel/ptrace.c --- a/kernel/ptrace.c~use-write_trylock_irqsave-in-ptrace_attach +++ a/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ int ptrace_may_attach(struct task_struct int ptrace_attach(struct task_struct *task) { int retval; + unsigned long flags = 0; audit_ptrace(task); @@ -181,9 +182,7 @@ repeat: * cpu's that may have task_lock). */ task_lock(task); - local_irq_disable(); - if (!write_trylock(&tasklist_lock)) { - local_irq_enable(); + if (!write_trylock_irqsave(&tasklist_lock, flags)) { task_unlock(task); do { cpu_relax(); @@ -211,7 +210,7 @@ repeat: force_sig_specific(SIGSTOP, task); bad: - write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock); + write_unlock_irqrestore(&tasklist_lock, flags); task_unlock(task); out: return retval; _