taskstats: add_del_listener() should ignore !valid listeners
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Wed, 3 Aug 2011 23:21:05 +0000 (16:21 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 4 Aug 2011 00:25:20 +0000 (14:25 -1000)
When send_cpu_listeners() finds the orphaned listener it marks it as
!valid and drops listeners->sem.  Before it takes this sem for writing,
s->pid can be reused and add_del_listener() can wrongly try to re-use
this entry.

Change add_del_listener() to check ->valid = T.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/taskstats.c

index a09a54936f1927d3f72cea4569f2a675748b8c0d..e19ce1454ee1d6d2e347e8c287abf2fe68fcc9e1 100644 (file)
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ static int add_del_listener(pid_t pid, const struct cpumask *mask, int isadd)
                        listeners = &per_cpu(listener_array, cpu);
                        down_write(&listeners->sem);
                        list_for_each_entry(s2, &listeners->list, list) {
-                               if (s2->pid == pid)
+                               if (s2->pid == pid && s2->valid)
                                        goto exists;
                        }
                        list_add(&s->list, &listeners->list);