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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2009-04-02 16:58:36 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-04-02 19:05:02 -0700
commit2ae448efc87df6d328f5835969076c7f9fce59c3 (patch)
treef110b43fa7c6b3c80f9b18a8e4fef728ed57f448 /fs
parent6dda81f4384b94930826eded254d8c16f89a9248 (diff)
pids: improve get_task_pid() to fix the unsafe sys_wait4()->task_pgrp()
sys_wait4() does get_pid(task_pgrp(current)), this is not safe. We can add rcu lock/unlock around, but we already have get_task_pid() which can be improved to handle the special pids in more reliable manner. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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