do_task_stat: don't take rcu_read_lock()
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:52:38 +0000 (00:52 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:29:34 +0000 (08:29 -0700)
lock_task_sighand() was changed, and do_task_stat() doesn't need
rcu_read_lock any longer.  sighand->siglock protects all "interesting"
fields.

Except: it doesn't protect ->tty->pgrp, but neither does rcu_read_lock(), this
should be fixed.

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>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/proc/array.c

index 07d6c48..b07a710 100644 (file)
@@ -425,7 +425,6 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
        cutime = cstime = utime = stime = cputime_zero;
        cgtime = gtime = cputime_zero;
 
-       rcu_read_lock();
        if (lock_task_sighand(task, &flags)) {
                struct signal_struct *sig = task->signal;
 
@@ -469,7 +468,6 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
 
                unlock_task_sighand(task, &flags);
        }
-       rcu_read_unlock();
 
        if (!whole || num_threads < 2)
                wchan = get_wchan(task);