From c0deae8c9587419ab13874b74425ce2eb2e18508 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergey Senozhatsky Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 18:52:56 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] posix-cpu-timers: Rcu_read_lock/unlock protect find_task_by_vpid call Commit 4221a9918e38b7494cee341dda7b7b4bb8c04bde "Add RCU check for find_task_by_vpid()" introduced rcu_lockdep_assert to find_task_by_pid_ns. Add rcu_read_lock/rcu_read_unlock to call find_task_by_vpid. Tetsuo Handa wrote: | Quoting from one of posts in that thead | http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2010/2/8/4536388 | || Usually tasklist gives enough protection, but if copy_process() fails || it calls free_pid() lockless and does call_rcu(delayed_put_pid(). || This means, without rcu lock find_pid_ns() can't scan the hash table || safely. Thomas Gleixner wrote: | We can remove the tasklist_lock while at it. rcu_read_lock is enough. Patch also replaces thread_group_leader with has_group_leader_pid in accordance to comment by Oleg Nesterov: | ... thread_group_leader() check is not relaible without | tasklist. If we race with de_thread() find_task_by_vpid() can find | the new leader before it updates its ->group_leader. | | perhaps it makes sense to change posix_cpu_timer_create() to use | has_group_leader_pid() instead, just to make this code not look racy | and avoid adding new problems. Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov LKML-Reference: <20101103165256.GD30053@swordfish.minsk.epam.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c index 6842eeb..05bb717 100644 --- a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c +++ b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c @@ -37,13 +37,13 @@ static int check_clock(const clockid_t which_clock) if (pid == 0) return 0; - read_lock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_lock(); p = find_task_by_vpid(pid); if (!p || !(CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD(which_clock) ? - same_thread_group(p, current) : thread_group_leader(p))) { + same_thread_group(p, current) : has_group_leader_pid(p))) { error = -EINVAL; } - read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_unlock(); return error; } @@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ int posix_cpu_timer_create(struct k_itimer *new_timer) INIT_LIST_HEAD(&new_timer->it.cpu.entry); - read_lock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_lock(); if (CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD(new_timer->it_clock)) { if (pid == 0) { p = current; @@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ int posix_cpu_timer_create(struct k_itimer *new_timer) p = current->group_leader; } else { p = find_task_by_vpid(pid); - if (p && !thread_group_leader(p)) + if (p && !has_group_leader_pid(p)) p = NULL; } } @@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ int posix_cpu_timer_create(struct k_itimer *new_timer) } else { ret = -EINVAL; } - read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_unlock(); return ret; } -- 2.7.4