ptrace: don't take tasklist to get/set ->last_siginfo
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:27:36 +0000 (16:27 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:03:52 +0000 (13:03 -0700)
Change ptrace_getsiginfo/ptrace_setsiginfo to use lock_task_sighand()
without tasklist_lock.  Perhaps it makes sense to make a single helper
with "bool rw" argument.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/ptrace.c

index a64fe75a48ba32906145850829d42c82629bdff1..61c78b2c07baefd768aed903f482ea08d9672200 100644 (file)
@@ -424,37 +424,33 @@ static int ptrace_setoptions(struct task_struct *child, long data)
 
 static int ptrace_getsiginfo(struct task_struct *child, siginfo_t *info)
 {
+       unsigned long flags;
        int error = -ESRCH;
 
-       read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
-       if (likely(child->sighand != NULL)) {
+       if (lock_task_sighand(child, &flags)) {
                error = -EINVAL;
-               spin_lock_irq(&child->sighand->siglock);
                if (likely(child->last_siginfo != NULL)) {
                        *info = *child->last_siginfo;
                        error = 0;
                }
-               spin_unlock_irq(&child->sighand->siglock);
+               unlock_task_sighand(child, &flags);
        }
-       read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
        return error;
 }
 
 static int ptrace_setsiginfo(struct task_struct *child, const siginfo_t *info)
 {
+       unsigned long flags;
        int error = -ESRCH;
 
-       read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
-       if (likely(child->sighand != NULL)) {
+       if (lock_task_sighand(child, &flags)) {
                error = -EINVAL;
-               spin_lock_irq(&child->sighand->siglock);
                if (likely(child->last_siginfo != NULL)) {
                        *child->last_siginfo = *info;
                        error = 0;
                }
-               spin_unlock_irq(&child->sighand->siglock);
+               unlock_task_sighand(child, &flags);
        }
-       read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
        return error;
 }