[PATCH] 2.5.6-pre3 Fix small race in BSD accounting

Below is a patch to remove a small race in kernel/acct.c.

diff --git a/kernel/acct.c b/kernel/acct.c
index a314da8b0261c6d9f82a94e61dcfb59b6c27b274..edce78d899937ccf5688461de72db42158dcd354 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/acct.c
+++ b/kernel/acct.c
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ int acct_process(long exitcode)
                file = acct_file;
                get_file(file);
                unlock_kernel();
-               do_acct_process(exitcode, acct_file);
+               do_acct_process(exitcode, file);
                fput(file);
        } else
                unlock_kernel();