1 files changed, 35 insertions, 69 deletions

diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 89c20d9d50b..b18f3773dd4 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -2142,72 +2142,43 @@ out_no_task:
 }
 
 /*
- * Find the first tgid to return to user space.
+ * Find the first task with tgid >= tgid
  *
- * Usually this is just whatever follows &init_task, but if the users
- * buffer was too small to hold the full list or there was a seek into
- * the middle of the directory we have more work to do.
- *
- * In the case of a short read we start with find_task_by_pid.
- *
- * In the case of a seek we start with &init_task and walk nr
- * threads past it.
  */
-static struct task_struct *first_tgid(int tgid, unsigned int nr)
+static struct task_struct *next_tgid(unsigned int tgid)
 {
-        struct task_struct *pos;
-        rcu_read_lock();
-        if (tgid && nr) {
-                pos = find_task_by_pid(tgid);
-                if (pos && thread_group_leader(pos))
-                        goto found;
-        }
-        /* If nr exceeds the number of processes get out quickly */
-        pos = NULL;
-        if (nr && nr >= nr_processes())
-                goto done;
-
-        /* If we haven't found our starting place yet start with
-         * the init_task and walk nr tasks forward.
-         */
-        for (pos = next_task(&init_task); nr > 0; --nr) {
-                pos = next_task(pos);
-                if (pos == &init_task) {
-                        pos = NULL;
-                        goto done;
-                }
-        }
-found:
-        get_task_struct(pos);
-done:
-        rcu_read_unlock();
-        return pos;
-}
+        struct task_struct *task;
+        struct pid *pid;
 
-/*
- * Find the next task in the task list.
- * Return NULL if we loop or there is any error.
- *
- * The reference to the input task_struct is released.
- */
-static struct task_struct *next_tgid(struct task_struct *start)
-{
-        struct task_struct *pos;
         rcu_read_lock();
-        pos = start;
-        if (pid_alive(start))
-                pos = next_task(start);
-        if (pid_alive(pos) && (pos != &init_task)) {
-                get_task_struct(pos);
-                goto done;
+retry:
+        task = NULL;
+        pid = find_ge_pid(tgid);
+        if (pid) {
+                tgid = pid->nr + 1;
+                task = pid_task(pid, PIDTYPE_PID);
+                /* What we to know is if the pid we have find is the
+                 * pid of a thread_group_leader.  Testing for task
+                 * being a thread_group_leader is the obvious thing
+                 * todo but there is a window when it fails, due to
+                 * the pid transfer logic in de_thread.
+                 *
+                 * So we perform the straight forward test of seeing
+                 * if the pid we have found is the pid of a thread
+                 * group leader, and don't worry if the task we have
+                 * found doesn't happen to be a thread group leader.
+                 * As we don't care in the case of readdir.
+                 */
+                if (!task || !has_group_leader_pid(task))
+                        goto retry;
+                get_task_struct(task);
         }
-        pos = NULL;
-done:
         rcu_read_unlock();
-        put_task_struct(start);
-        return pos;
+        return task;
 }
 
+#define TGID_OFFSET (FIRST_PROCESS_ENTRY + (1 /* /proc/self */))
+
 /* for the /proc/ directory itself, after non-process stuff has been done */
 int proc_pid_readdir(struct file * filp, void * dirent, filldir_t filldir)
 {
@@ -2223,29 +2194,24 @@ int proc_pid_readdir(struct file * filp, void * dirent, filldir_t filldir)
                 filp->f_pos++;
                 nr++;
         }
-        nr -= 1;
 
-        /* f_version caches the tgid value that the last readdir call couldn't
-         * return. lseek aka telldir automagically resets f_version to 0.
-         */
-        tgid = filp->f_version;
-        filp->f_version = 0;
-        for (task = first_tgid(tgid, nr);
+        tgid = filp->f_pos - TGID_OFFSET;
+        for (task = next_tgid(tgid);
              task;
-             task = next_tgid(task), filp->f_pos++) {
+             put_task_struct(task), task = next_tgid(tgid + 1)) {
                 int len;
                 ino_t ino;
                 tgid = task->pid;
+                filp->f_pos = tgid + TGID_OFFSET;
                 len = snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%d", tgid);
                 ino = fake_ino(tgid, PROC_TGID_INO);
                 if (filldir(dirent, buf, len, filp->f_pos, ino, DT_DIR) < 0) {
-                        /* returning this tgid failed, save it as the first
-                         * pid for the next readir call */
-                        filp->f_version = tgid;
                         put_task_struct(task);
-                        break;
+                        goto out;
                 }
         }
+        filp->f_pos = PID_MAX_LIMIT + TGID_OFFSET;
+out:
         return 0;
 }