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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>2006-10-02 02:18:59 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-02 07:57:25 -0700
commit1a657f78dcc8ea7c53eaa1f2a45ea2315738c15f (patch)
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parent1c0d04c9e44f4a248335c33d2be7c7f7b06ff359 (diff)
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[PATCH] introduce get_task_pid() to fix unsafe get_pid()
proc_pid_make_inode: ei->pid = get_pid(task_pid(task)); I think this is not safe. get_pid() can be preempted after checking "pid != NULL". Then the task exits, does detach_pid(), and RCU frees the pid. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/pid.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/pid.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index e4779bbb2058..b914392085f9 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -304,6 +304,15 @@ struct task_struct *find_task_by_pid_type(int type, int nr)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(find_task_by_pid_type);
+struct pid *get_task_pid(struct task_struct *task, enum pid_type type)
+{
+ struct pid *pid;
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ pid = get_pid(task->pids[type].pid);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ return pid;
+}
+
struct task_struct *fastcall get_pid_task(struct pid *pid, enum pid_type type)
{
struct task_struct *result;