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From: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] cgroup: remove redundant get/put of task struct
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:04:18 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111221000418.GY13529@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111220232326.GL10752@google.com>

Tejun Heo (tj@kernel.org) wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 03:14:30PM -0800, Mandeep Singh Baines wrote:
> > @@ -2287,14 +2280,12 @@ static int attach_task_by_pid(struct cgroup *cgrp, u64 pid, bool threadgroup)
> >  			cgroup_unlock();
> >  			return -EACCES;
> >  		}
> > -		get_task_struct(tsk);
> >  		rcu_read_unlock();
> 
> This is before threadgroup is locked.  What guarantees @tsk doesn't go
> away once rcu is unlocked?
> 

Nothing. D'oh. I'll remove the changes to attach_task_by_id and leave
the others.

> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-21  0:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-20 23:14 [PATCH 0/5] cgroup: some cleanups of cgroup_attach_proc Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-12-20 23:14 ` [PATCH 1/5 V3] cgroup: remove redundate get/put of old css_set from migrate Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-12-20 23:18   ` Tejun Heo
2011-12-20 23:41     ` Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-12-20 23:42       ` Tejun Heo
2011-12-20 23:46         ` Tejun Heo
2011-12-21  1:10   ` Li Zefan
2011-12-20 23:14 ` [PATCH 2/5] cgroup: remove redundant get/put of task struct Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-12-20 23:23   ` Tejun Heo
2011-12-21  0:04     ` Mandeep Singh Baines [this message]
2011-12-20 23:14 ` [PATCH 3/5] cgroup: only need to check oldcgrp==newgrp once Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-12-21  1:29   ` Li Zefan
2011-12-20 23:14 ` [PATCH 4/5] cgroup: remove extra calls to find_existing_css_set Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-12-20 23:30   ` Tejun Heo
2011-12-20 23:47     ` Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-12-20 23:14 ` [PATCH 5/5] cgroup: separate out cgroup_attach_proc error handling code Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-12-20 23:35   ` Tejun Heo
2011-12-21  0:02     ` Mandeep Singh Baines
2011-12-21  0:13       ` Tejun Heo

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