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From: Ameya Palande <ameya.palande@nokia.com>
Subject: find_task_by_vpid() not protected
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:51:42 +0300
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To: "Kanigeri, Hari" <h-kanigeri2@ti.com>
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Hi Hari,

I found out that bridge_open() function is calling find_task_by_vpid()
without taking rcu_read_lock() or with tasklist_lock read-held.

Should we introduce proper read locking with following functions?
read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);

Cheers,
Ameya.