linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/5] Use task_pid() to find leader's pid

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Message-ID: <20070715045730.GD25053@us.ibm.com>
Date:	Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:57:30 -0700
From:	sukadev@...ibm.com
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...nvz.org>, serue@...ibm.com,
	clg@...ibm.com, haveblue@...ibm.com,
	Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3/5] Use task_pid() to find leader's pid


Subject: [PATCH 3/5] Use task_pid() to find leader's pid

From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ibm.com>

Use task_pid() to get leader's pid since find_pid() cannot be used
after detach_pid(). See comments in the code below for more details.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ibm.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...nvz.org>

Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>
Cc: Herbert Poetzel <herbert@...hfloor.at>
---
 fs/exec.c |    9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: lx26-22-rc6-mm1/fs/exec.c
===================================================================
--- lx26-22-rc6-mm1.orig/fs/exec.c	2007-07-13 13:12:01.000000000 -0700
+++ lx26-22-rc6-mm1/fs/exec.c	2007-07-13 13:12:13.000000000 -0700
@@ -905,10 +905,17 @@ static int de_thread(struct task_struct 
 		 * The old leader becomes a thread of the this thread group.
 		 * Note: The old leader also uses this pid until release_task
 		 *       is called.  Odd but simple and correct.
+		 * Note: With multiple pid namespaces, active pid namespace of
+		 * 	 a process is stored in its struct pid. The detach_pid
+		 * 	 below frees the struct pid, so we will have no notion
+		 * 	 of an active pid namespace until we complete the
+		 * 	 subsequent attach_pid(). Which means - calls like
+		 * 	 find_pid()/pid_to_nr() return NULL and cannot be used
+		 * 	 between the detach_pid() and attach_pid() calls.
 		 */
 		detach_pid(tsk, PIDTYPE_PID);
 		tsk->pid = leader->pid;
-		attach_pid(tsk, PIDTYPE_PID,  find_pid(tsk->pid));
+		attach_pid(tsk, PIDTYPE_PID,  task_pid(leader));
 		transfer_pid(leader, tsk, PIDTYPE_PGID);
 		transfer_pid(leader, tsk, PIDTYPE_SID);
 		list_replace_rcu(&leader->tasks, &tsk->tasks);
-
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