linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] taskstats: add_del_listener() should ignore !valid listener's

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Date:	Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:19:55 +0530
From:	Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>,
	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] taskstats: add_del_listener() should ignore !valid listener's

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:
> When send_cpu_listeners() finds the orphaned listener it marks
> it as !valid and drops listeners->sem. Before it takes this sem
> for wrinting, s->pid can be reused and add_del_listener() can
> wrongly try to re-use this entry.
>
> Change add_del_listener() to check ->valid = T.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>

Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>

BTW, some namespace changes are pending from my side. I need to get
it, its on my TODO list

Balbir Singh
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