[PATCH] posix-cpu-timers: rcu_read_lock/unlock protectfind_task_by_vpid call

[Sergey Senozhatsky]

Commit 4221a9918e38b7494cee341dda7b7b4bb8c04bde "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.
|
| perhaps it makes sense to change posix_cpu_timer_create() to use 
| has_group_leader_pid() instead, just to make this code not look racy
| and avoid adding new problems.


Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>

---

diff --git a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
index 6842eeb..05bb717 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -37,13 +37,13 @@ static int check_clock(const clockid_t which_clock)
 	if (pid == 0)
 		return 0;
 
-	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+	rcu_read_lock();
 	p = find_task_by_vpid(pid);
 	if (!p || !(CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD(which_clock) ?
-		   same_thread_group(p, current) : thread_group_leader(p))) {
+		   same_thread_group(p, current) : has_group_leader_pid(p))) {
 		error = -EINVAL;
 	}
-	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	return error;
 }
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ int posix_cpu_timer_create(struct k_itimer *new_timer)
 
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&new_timer->it.cpu.entry);
 
-	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+	rcu_read_lock();
 	if (CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD(new_timer->it_clock)) {
 		if (pid == 0) {
 			p = current;
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ int posix_cpu_timer_create(struct k_itimer *new_timer)
 			p = current->group_leader;
 		} else {
 			p = find_task_by_vpid(pid);
-			if (p && !thread_group_leader(p))
+			if (p && !has_group_leader_pid(p))
 				p = NULL;
 		}
 	}
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ int posix_cpu_timer_create(struct k_itimer *new_timer)
 	} else {
 		ret = -EINVAL;
 	}
-	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	return ret;
 }

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