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[PATCH] proc: drop tasklist lock in task_state()
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task_state() needs tasklist_lock to protect ->parent/->real_parent.  However
task->parent points to nowhere only when the actions below happen in order

	1) release_task(task)
	2) release_task(task->parent)
	3) a grace period passed

But 3) implies that the memory ops from 1) should be finished, so pid_alive()
can't be true in such a case.

Otherwise, we don't care if ->parent/->real_parent changes under us.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Oleg Nesterov authored and Linus Torvalds committed Oct 2, 2006
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11 changes: 5 additions & 6 deletions fs/proc/array.c
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Expand Up @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ static inline char * task_state(struct task_struct *p, char *buffer)
int g;
struct fdtable *fdt = NULL;

read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
rcu_read_lock();
buffer += sprintf(buffer,
"State:\t%s\n"
"SleepAVG:\t%lu%%\n"
Expand All @@ -174,14 +174,13 @@ static inline char * task_state(struct task_struct *p, char *buffer)
"Gid:\t%d\t%d\t%d\t%d\n",
get_task_state(p),
(p->sleep_avg/1024)*100/(1020000000/1024),
p->tgid,
p->pid, pid_alive(p) ? p->group_leader->real_parent->tgid : 0,
pid_alive(p) && p->ptrace ? p->parent->pid : 0,
p->tgid, p->pid,
pid_alive(p) ? rcu_dereference(p->real_parent)->tgid : 0,
pid_alive(p) && p->ptrace ? rcu_dereference(p->parent)->pid : 0,
p->uid, p->euid, p->suid, p->fsuid,
p->gid, p->egid, p->sgid, p->fsgid);
read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);

task_lock(p);
rcu_read_lock();
if (p->files)
fdt = files_fdtable(p->files);
buffer += sprintf(buffer,
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