[PATCH] find_task_by_pid() needs tasklist_lock

A couple of places are forgetting to take it.

The kswapd case is probably unimportant.  keventd_create_kthread() was racy.

The whole thing is a bit flakey: you start a kernel thread, get its pid from
kernel_thread() then look up its task_struct.

a) It assumes that pid recycling takes a "long" time.

b) We get a task_struct but no reference was taken on it.  The owner of the
   kswapd and kthread task_struct*'s must assume that the new thread won't
   exit unexpectedly.  Because if it does, they're left holding dead memory
   and any attempt to control or stop that task will crash.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index 6a5373868a98..c5f3c6613b6d 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -115,7 +115,9 @@ static void keventd_create_kthread(void *_create)
                 create->result = ERR_PTR(pid);
         } else {
                 wait_for_completion(&create->started);
+                read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
                 create->result = find_task_by_pid(pid);
+                read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
         }
         complete(&create->done);
 }