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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2007-02-12 03:52:58 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-02-12 12:48:32 -0500
commit3e7cd6c413c9e6fbb5e1ee2acdadb4ababd2d474 (patch)
treede97d00794ee0c787b6c551a91e33fb1faa48caa /kernel
parent0475ac0845f9295bc5f69af45f58dff2c104c8d1 (diff)
[PATCH] pid: replace is_orphaned_pgrp with is_current_pgrp_orphaned
Every call to is_orphaned_pgrp passed in process_group(current) which is racy with respect to another thread changing our process group. It didn't bite us because we were dealing with integers and the worse we would get would be a stale answer. In switching the checks to use struct pid to be a little more efficient and prepare the way for pid namespaces this race became apparent. So I simplified the calls to the more specialized is_current_pgrp_orphaned so I didn't have to worry about making logic changes to avoid the race. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c4
-rw-r--r--kernel/signal.c2
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 407b80aaefda..f132349c0325 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -229,12 +229,12 @@ static int will_become_orphaned_pgrp(struct pid *pgrp, struct task_struct *ignor
229 return ret; /* (sighing) "Often!" */ 229 return ret; /* (sighing) "Often!" */
230} 230}
231 231
232int is_orphaned_pgrp(int pgrp) 232int is_current_pgrp_orphaned(void)
233{ 233{
234 int retval; 234 int retval;
235 235
236 read_lock(&tasklist_lock); 236 read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
237 retval = will_become_orphaned_pgrp(find_pid(pgrp), NULL); 237 retval = will_become_orphaned_pgrp(task_pgrp(current), NULL);
238 read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); 238 read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
239 239
240 return retval; 240 return retval;
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index de66def71644..a9b679ed795c 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -1909,7 +1909,7 @@ relock:
1909 1909
1910 /* signals can be posted during this window */ 1910 /* signals can be posted during this window */
1911 1911
1912 if (is_orphaned_pgrp(process_group(current))) 1912 if (is_current_pgrp_orphaned())
1913 goto relock; 1913 goto relock;
1914 1914
1915 spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock); 1915 spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);