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| author | Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> | 2006-03-25 03:07:48 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-03-25 08:22:57 -0800 |
| commit | 05eeae208d08a05a6980cf2ff61f02843c0955fd (patch) | |
| tree | be6c6c4e16cfac07edf437a1f74ef027ada8ccc7 /mm | |
| parent | c1f5a1944657ba6abe375e3bb2a3238a46849f70 (diff) | |
[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 <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
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); |