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authorMichal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>2008-02-06 01:37:07 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-06 10:41:04 -0800
commit07a154b2bb9b528a39ddc777399482c1fa27fdb8 (patch)
tree64355093ab4f470e67a301fb53e7d078ad4000f9 /fs
parent0a76fe8e50ee93a9d4a1badb1ec995852a6bcaf1 (diff)
proc: loadavg reading race
The avenrun[] values are supposed to be protected by xtime_lock. loadavg_read_proc does not use it. Theoretically this may result in an occasional glitch when the value read from /proc/loadavg would be as much as 1<<11 times higher than it should be. Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/proc_misc.c11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_misc.c b/fs/proc/proc_misc.c
index 383ff068ab2..2686592dbcb 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_misc.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_misc.c
@@ -84,10 +84,15 @@ static int loadavg_read_proc(char *page, char **start, off_t off,
{
int a, b, c;
int len;
+ unsigned long seq;
+
+ do {
+ seq = read_seqbegin(&xtime_lock);
+ a = avenrun[0] + (FIXED_1/200);
+ b = avenrun[1] + (FIXED_1/200);
+ c = avenrun[2] + (FIXED_1/200);
+ } while (read_seqretry(&xtime_lock, seq));
- a = avenrun[0] + (FIXED_1/200);
- b = avenrun[1] + (FIXED_1/200);
- c = avenrun[2] + (FIXED_1/200);
len = sprintf(page,"%d.%02d %d.%02d %d.%02d %ld/%d %d\n",
LOAD_INT(a), LOAD_FRAC(a),
LOAD_INT(b), LOAD_FRAC(b),