pidns: fix NULL dereference in __task_pid_nr_ns()
I got a crash during a "perf top" session that was caused by a race in __task_pid_nr_ns() : pid_nr_ns() was inlined, but apparently compiler chose to read task->pids[type].pid twice, and the pid->level dereference crashed because we got a NULL pointer at the second read : if (pid && ns->level <= pid->level) { // CRASH Just use RCU API properly to solve this race, and not worry about "perf top" crashing hosts :( get_task_pid() can benefit from same fix. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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