linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2 (resend)] Clean up the kill_someting

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Message-ID: <47A70CCA.7020105@openvz.org>
Date:	Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:02:02 +0300
From:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	devel@...nvz.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2 (resend)] Clean up the kill_someting_info

This is the first step (of two) in removing the kill_pgrp_info.

All the users of this function are in kernel/signal.c, but all
they need is to call __kill_pgrp_info() with the tasklist_lock
read-locked.

Fortunately, one of its users is the kill_something_info(),
which already needs this lock in one of its branches, so clean
these branches up and call the __kill_pgrp_info() directly.

Based on Oleg's view of how this function should look.

Changes from v1:
* Fixed double rcu_read_lock() in the if (pid > 0) branch.
  This caused udev die from segfault on FC3, as noticed by Andrew.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>

---
 kernel/signal.c |   26 +++++++++++++++-----------
 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index cc45a6b..a805c74 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -1134,14 +1134,22 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kill_pid_info_as_uid);
 static int kill_something_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, int pid)
 {
 	int ret;
-	rcu_read_lock();
-	if (!pid) {
-		ret = kill_pgrp_info(sig, info, task_pgrp(current));
-	} else if (pid == -1) {
+
+	if (pid > 0) {
+		rcu_read_lock();
+		ret = kill_pid_info(sig, info, find_vpid(pid));
+		rcu_read_unlock();
+		return ret;
+	}
+
+	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+	if (pid != -1) {
+		ret = __kill_pgrp_info(sig, info,
+				pid ? find_vpid(-pid) : task_pgrp(current));
+	} else {
 		int retval = 0, count = 0;
 		struct task_struct * p;
 
-		read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
 		for_each_process(p) {
 			if (p->pid > 1 && !same_thread_group(p, current)) {
 				int err = group_send_sig_info(sig, info, p);
@@ -1150,14 +1158,10 @@ static int kill_something_info(int sig, struct siginfo *info, int pid)
 					retval = err;
 			}
 		}
-		read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
 		ret = count ? retval : -ESRCH;
-	} else if (pid < 0) {
-		ret = kill_pgrp_info(sig, info, find_vpid(-pid));
-	} else {
-		ret = kill_pid_info(sig, info, find_vpid(pid));
 	}
-	rcu_read_unlock();
+	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+
 	return ret;
 }
 
-- 
1.5.3.4

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