ioprio: grab rcu_read_lock in sys_ioprio_{set,get}()
Using: - CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR=y - CONFIG_PREEMPT=y - CONFIG_LOCKDEP=y - CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y - CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y found a missing rcu lock during boot on a 512 MiB x86_64 ubuntu vm: =================================================== [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ] --------------------------------------------------- kernel/pid.c:419 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection! other info that might help us debug this: rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0 1 lock held by ureadahead/1355: #0: (tasklist_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff8115bc09>] sys_ioprio_set+0x7f/0x29e stack backtrace: Pid: 1355, comm: ureadahead Not tainted 2.6.37-dbg-DEV #1 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8109c10c>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0xaa/0xb3 [<ffffffff81088cbf>] find_task_by_pid_ns+0x44/0x5d [<ffffffff81088cfa>] find_task_by_vpid+0x22/0x24 [<ffffffff8115bc3e>] sys_ioprio_set+0xb4/0x29e [<ffffffff8147cf21>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_thunk+0x3a/0x3c [<ffffffff8105c409>] sysenter_dispatch+0x7/0x2c [<ffffffff8147cee2>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f The fix is to: a) grab rcu lock in sys_ioprio_{set,get}() and b) avoid grabbing tasklist_lock. Discussion in: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128951324702889 Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Modified by Jens to remove the now redundant inner rcu lock and unlock since they are now protected by the outer lock. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>