linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/15] task_diag: add a new interface to get information about tasks (v4)

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Date:	Tue, 12 Apr 2016 10:08:57 +0300
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Roger Luethi <rl@...lgate.ch>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Pavel Odintsov <pavel.odintsov@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/15] task_diag: add a new interface to get information
 about tasks (v4)

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 04:35:44PM -0700, Andrey Vagin wrote:
...
> +static int __taskdiag_dumpit(struct task_iter *iter,
> +			     struct task_diag_cb *cb, struct task_struct **start)
> +{
> +	struct user_namespace *userns = current_user_ns();
> +	struct task_struct *task = *start;
> +	int rc;
> +
> +	for (; task; task = iter_next(iter)) {
> +		if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS))
> +			continue;
> +
> +		rc = task_diag_fill(task, cb->resp, &iter->req,
> +				cb, iter->ns, userns);
> +		if (rc < 0) {
> +			if (rc != -EMSGSIZE)
> +				return rc;
> +			break;
> +		}
> +	}
> +	*start = task;

task = NULL always here?

> +
> +	return 0;
> +}

	Cyrill