Commit f409adf5b1db55ece7e80b67a944f9c0d3fe93e9

Authored by Thomas Gleixner
1 parent 2b876f95d0

futex: Protect pid lookup in compat code with RCU

find_task_by_vpid() in compat_sys_get_robust_list() does not require
tasklist_lock. It can be protected with rcu_read_lock as done in
sys_get_robust_list() already.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

Showing 1 changed file with 3 additions and 3 deletions Side-by-side Diff

kernel/futex_compat.c
... ... @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@
146 146 struct task_struct *p;
147 147  
148 148 ret = -ESRCH;
149   - read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
  149 + rcu_read_lock();
150 150 p = find_task_by_vpid(pid);
151 151 if (!p)
152 152 goto err_unlock;
... ... @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@
157 157 !capable(CAP_SYS_PTRACE))
158 158 goto err_unlock;
159 159 head = p->compat_robust_list;
160   - read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
  160 + rcu_read_unlock();
161 161 }
162 162  
163 163 if (put_user(sizeof(*head), len_ptr))
... ... @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@
165 165 return put_user(ptr_to_compat(head), head_ptr);
166 166  
167 167 err_unlock:
168   - read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
  168 + rcu_read_unlock();
169 169  
170 170 return ret;
171 171 }