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Commit dd1c1f2f authored by Oleg Nesterov's avatar Oleg Nesterov Committed by Linus Torvalds
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pids: make task_tgid_nr_ns() safe

This was reported many times, and this was even mentioned in commit
52ee2dfd

 ("pids: refactor vnr/nr_ns helpers to make them safe") but
somehow nobody bothered to fix the obvious problem: task_tgid_nr_ns() is
not safe because task->group_leader points to nowhere after the exiting
task passes exit_notify(), rcu_read_lock() can not help.

We really need to change __unhash_process() to nullify group_leader,
parent, and real_parent, but this needs some cleanups.  Until then we
can turn task_tgid_nr_ns() into another user of __task_pid_nr_ns() and
fix the problem.

Reported-by: default avatarTroy Kensinger <tkensinger@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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