Re: [PATCH] ftrace: do_each_pid_task() needs rcu lock

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

On 02/03, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> "ftrace: use struct pid" commit 978f3a45d9499c7a447ca7615455cefb63d44165
> converted ftrace_pid_trace to "struct pid*". But we can't use
> do_each_pid_task() without rcu_read_lock() even if we know the pid
> itself can't go away (it was pinned in ftrace_pid_write). The exiting
> task can detach itself from this pid at any moment.

Q: why do we use do_each_pid_task(PIDTYPE_PID) ? We can never have more
than 1 task in the loop. Perhaps,

	static void set_ftrace_pid(struct pid *pid)
	{
		struct task_struct *p;

		rcu_read_lock();
		p = pid_task(pid, PIDTYPE_PID);
		if (p)
			set_tsk_trace_trace(p);
		rcu_read_unlock();
	}

looks better?

Oleg.