From cc288738c9ae3c64d3c50b86604044d1f6d22941 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:26:01 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] proc: Remove tasklist_lock from proc_task_readdir. This is just like my previous removal of tasklist_lock from first_tgid, and next_tgid. It simply had to wait until it was rcu safe to walk the thread list. This should be the last instance of the tasklist_lock in proc. So user processes should not be able to influence the tasklist lock hold times. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/proc/base.c | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c index 773469703c..6092a6e2c5 100644 --- a/fs/proc/base.c +++ b/fs/proc/base.c @@ -2224,11 +2224,12 @@ int proc_pid_readdir(struct file * filp, void * dirent, filldir_t filldir) * In the case of a seek we start with the leader and walk nr * threads past it. */ -static struct task_struct *first_tid(struct task_struct *leader, int tid, int nr) +static struct task_struct *first_tid(struct task_struct *leader, + int tid, int nr) { struct task_struct *pos = NULL; - read_lock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_lock(); /* Attempt to start with the pid of a thread */ if (tid && (nr > 0)) { pos = find_task_by_pid(tid); @@ -2258,7 +2259,7 @@ static struct task_struct *first_tid(struct task_struct *leader, int tid, int nr } pos = NULL; done: - read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_unlock(); return pos; } @@ -2271,7 +2272,7 @@ done: static struct task_struct *next_tid(struct task_struct *start) { struct task_struct *pos; - read_lock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_lock(); pos = start; if (pid_alive(start)) pos = next_thread(start); @@ -2279,7 +2280,7 @@ static struct task_struct *next_tid(struct task_struct *start) get_task_struct(pos); else pos = NULL; - read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_unlock(); put_task_struct(start); return pos; } -- 2.39.2