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Kernel: Don't hold the process list lock while destructing the process

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Once we remove the process from the process list, we're free to do
whatever we want without any locks.
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sin-ack 2021-08-15 08:25:29 +00:00 • committed by Andreas Kling
parent 4520863c0e
commit 98408b8920
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Kernel/Process.cpp
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@ -302,16 +302,19 @@ bool Process::unref() const
// NOTE: We need to obtain the process list lock before doing anything,
// because otherwise someone might get in between us lowering the
// refcount and acquiring the lock.
return processes().with_exclusive([&](auto& list) {
auto did_hit_zero = processes().with_exclusive([&](auto& list) {
auto new_ref_count = deref_base();
if (new_ref_count > 0)
return false;
if (m_list_node.is_in_list())
list.remove(*const_cast<Process*>(this));
delete this;
return true;
});
if (did_hit_zero)
delete this;
return did_hit_zero;
}
// Make sure the compiler doesn't "optimize away" this function: