From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>

Most of the callers of lock_task_sighand() doesn't actually need rcu_lock(). 
lock_task_sighand() needs it only to safely play with tsk->sighand, it can
take the lock itself.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 kernel/signal.c |    5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff -puN kernel/signal.c~lock_task_sighand-add-rcu-lock-unlock kernel/signal.c
--- a/kernel/signal.c~lock_task_sighand-add-rcu-lock-unlock
+++ a/kernel/signal.c
@@ -971,13 +971,11 @@ int __fatal_signal_pending(struct task_s
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__fatal_signal_pending);
 
-/*
- * Must be called under rcu_read_lock() or with tasklist_lock read-held.
- */
 struct sighand_struct *lock_task_sighand(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned long *flags)
 {
 	struct sighand_struct *sighand;
 
+	rcu_read_lock();
 	for (;;) {
 		sighand = rcu_dereference(tsk->sighand);
 		if (unlikely(sighand == NULL))
@@ -988,6 +986,7 @@ struct sighand_struct *lock_task_sighand
 			break;
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sighand->siglock, *flags);
 	}
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	return sighand;
 }
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