pids: introduce find_get_task_by_vpid() helper

There are several functions that do find_task_by_vpid() followed by
get_task_struct().  We can use a helper function instead.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509602027-11337-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/mm/process_vm_access.c b/mm/process_vm_access.c
index 8973cd231ece..16424b9ae424 100644
--- a/mm/process_vm_access.c
+++ b/mm/process_vm_access.c
@@ -197,11 +197,7 @@ static ssize_t process_vm_rw_core(pid_t pid, struct iov_iter *iter,
         }
 
         /* Get process information */
-        rcu_read_lock();
-        task = find_task_by_vpid(pid);
-        if (task)
-                get_task_struct(task);
-        rcu_read_unlock();
+        task = find_get_task_by_vpid(pid);
         if (!task) {
                 rc = -ESRCH;
                 goto free_proc_pages;