ortunately, one of its users is the kill_something_info(), which already needs this lock in one of its branches, so clean these branches up and call the __kill_pgrp_info() directly. Based on Oleg's view of how this function should look. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds