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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca,
	josh@joshtriplett.org, dvhltc@us.ibm.com, niv@us.ibm.com,
	tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, jslaby@suse.cz,
	jmorris@namei.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] pid: make setpgid() system call use RCU read-side critical section
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:31:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <10401.1283268689@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100831151212.GB2421@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> It turns out that the setpgid() system call fails to enter an RCU
> read-side critical section before doing a PID-to-task_struct translation.
> This commit therefore does rcu_read_lock() before the translation, and
> also does rcu_read_unlock() after the last use of the returned pointer.
> 
> Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

      reply	other threads:[~2010-08-31 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-30 17:26 [PATCH RFC] pid: make setpgid() system call use RCU read-side critical section Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-30 19:51 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-08-30 20:32   ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-09-09 22:15   ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-09-16  9:18     ` Jiri Slaby
2010-09-16 16:39       ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-08-31 13:02 ` David Howells
2010-08-31 15:12   ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-31 15:31     ` David Howells [this message]

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