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* [patch 1/2] sched: Protect task->cpus_allowed access in sched_getaffinity()
@ 2009-12-08 20:24 Thomas Gleixner
  2009-12-09  8:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
  2009-12-09  9:52 ` [tip:sched/urgent] " tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Gleixner @ 2009-12-08 20:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: LKML; +Cc: Ingo Molnar, Peter Zijlstra

[-- Attachment #1: sched-fix-sched-get-affinity-racy-access.patch --]
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sched_getaffinity() is not protected against a concurrent modification
of the tasks affinity.

Serialize the access with task_rq_lock(task).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
---
 kernel/sched.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6-tip/kernel/sched.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-tip.orig/kernel/sched.c
+++ linux-2.6-tip/kernel/sched.c
@@ -6631,6 +6631,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(sched_setaffinity, pid_t
 long sched_getaffinity(pid_t pid, struct cpumask *mask)
 {
 	struct task_struct *p;
+	unsigned long flags;
+	struct rq *rq;
 	int retval;
 
 	get_online_cpus();
@@ -6645,7 +6647,9 @@ long sched_getaffinity(pid_t pid, struct
 	if (retval)
 		goto out_unlock;
 
+	rq = task_rq_lock(p, &flags);
 	cpumask_and(mask, &p->cpus_allowed, cpu_online_mask);
+	task_rq_unlock(rq, &flags);
 
 out_unlock:
 	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);



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