From: Andrew Morton Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:48 +0000 (-0800) Subject: [PATCH] find_task_by_pid() needs tasklist_lock X-Git-Tag: v2.6.17-rc1~786 X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=05eeae208d08a05a6980cf2ff61f02843c0955fd;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git [PATCH] find_task_by_pid() needs tasklist_lock A couple of places are forgetting to take it. The kswapd case is probably unimportant. keventd_create_kthread() was racy. The whole thing is a bit flakey: you start a kernel thread, get its pid from kernel_thread() then look up its task_struct. a) It assumes that pid recycling takes a "long" time. b) We get a task_struct but no reference was taken on it. The owner of the kswapd and kthread task_struct*'s must assume that the new thread won't exit unexpectedly. Because if it does, they're left holding dead memory and any attempt to control or stop that task will crash. Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c index 6a5373868a9..c5f3c6613b6 100644 --- a/kernel/kthread.c +++ b/kernel/kthread.c @@ -115,7 +115,9 @@ static void keventd_create_kthread(void *_create) create->result = ERR_PTR(pid); } else { wait_for_completion(&create->started); + read_lock(&tasklist_lock); create->result = find_task_by_pid(pid); + read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); } complete(&create->done); } diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index fd572bbdc9f..78865c849f8 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1356,7 +1356,9 @@ static int __init kswapd_init(void) pid = kernel_thread(kswapd, pgdat, CLONE_KERNEL); BUG_ON(pid < 0); + read_lock(&tasklist_lock); pgdat->kswapd = find_task_by_pid(pid); + read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); } total_memory = nr_free_pagecache_pages(); hotcpu_notifier(cpu_callback, 0);