linux-kernel - [tip:sched/urgent] sched: Use rcu in sched_get_rr

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Date:	Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:31:35 GMT
From:	tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...hat.com,
	peterz@...radead.org, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: [tip:sched/urgent] sched: Use rcu in sched_get_rr_param()

Commit-ID:  1a551ae715825bb2a2107a2dd68de024a1fa4e32
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/1a551ae715825bb2a2107a2dd68de024a1fa4e32
Author:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
AuthorDate: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 10:15:11 +0000
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CommitDate: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:11:35 +0100

sched: Use rcu in sched_get_rr_param()

read_lock(&tasklist_lock) does not protect
sys_sched_get_rr_param() against a concurrent update of the
policy or scheduler parameters as do_sched_scheduler() does not
take the tasklist_lock.

The access to task->sched_class->get_rr_interval is protected by
task_rq_lock(task).

Use rcu_read_lock() to protect find_task_by_vpid() and prevent
the task struct from going away.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20091209100706.862897167@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
---
 kernel/sched.c |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 7989312..db5c266 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -6873,7 +6873,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(sched_rr_get_interval, pid_t, pid,
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	retval = -ESRCH;
-	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+	rcu_read_lock();
 	p = find_process_by_pid(pid);
 	if (!p)
 		goto out_unlock;
@@ -6886,13 +6886,13 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(sched_rr_get_interval, pid_t, pid,
 	time_slice = p->sched_class->get_rr_interval(rq, p);
 	task_rq_unlock(rq, &flags);
 
-	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 	jiffies_to_timespec(time_slice, &t);
 	retval = copy_to_user(interval, &t, sizeof(t)) ? -EFAULT : 0;
 	return retval;
 
 out_unlock:
-	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 	return retval;
 }
 
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