mm/mempolicy.c: add rcu read lock to protect pid structure
authorZeng Zhaoming <zengzm.kernel@gmail.com>
Thu, 2 Dec 2010 22:31:13 +0000 (14:31 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 2 Dec 2010 22:51:14 +0000 (14:51 -0800)
find_task_by_vpid() should be protected by rcu_read_lock(), to prevent
free_pid() reclaiming pid.

Signed-off-by: Zeng Zhaoming <zengzm.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/mempolicy.c

index 4a57f135b76e74741e7c7d285642067a3e18efe6..11ff260fb282b778657a872aec0947d5f15616c6 100644 (file)
@@ -1307,15 +1307,18 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(migrate_pages, pid_t, pid, unsigned long, maxnode,
                goto out;
 
        /* Find the mm_struct */
+       rcu_read_lock();
        read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
        task = pid ? find_task_by_vpid(pid) : current;
        if (!task) {
                read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+               rcu_read_unlock();
                err = -ESRCH;
                goto out;
        }
        mm = get_task_mm(task);
        read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+       rcu_read_unlock();
 
        err = -EINVAL;
        if (!mm)