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Commit c0deae8c authored by Sergey Senozhatsky's avatar Sergey Senozhatsky Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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posix-cpu-timers: Rcu_read_lock/unlock protect find_task_by_vpid call

Commit 4221a991 "Add RCU check for
find_task_by_vpid()" introduced rcu_lockdep_assert to find_task_by_pid_ns.
Add rcu_read_lock/rcu_read_unlock to call find_task_by_vpid.

Tetsuo Handa wrote:
| Quoting from one of posts in that thead
| http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2010/2/8/4536388
|
|| Usually tasklist gives enough protection, but if copy_process() fails
|| it calls free_pid() lockless and does call_rcu(delayed_put_pid().
|| This means, without rcu lock find_pid_ns() can't scan the hash table
|| safely.

Thomas Gleixner wrote:
| We can remove the tasklist_lock while at it. rcu_read_lock is enough.

Patch also replaces thread_group_leader with has_group_leader_pid
in accordance to comment by Oleg Nesterov:

| ... thread_group_leader() check is not relaible without 
| tasklist. If we race with de_thread() find_task_by_vpid() can find
| the new leader before it updates its ->group_leader.
|...
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