linux-kernel - [tip:sched/urgent] sched: Protect task->cpus_allowed access in sched

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Message-ID: <tip-3160568371da441b7f2fb57f2f1225404207e8f2@git.kernel.org>
Date:	Wed, 9 Dec 2009 09:52:54 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: Protect task->cpus_allowed access in sched_getaffinity()

Commit-ID:  3160568371da441b7f2fb57f2f1225404207e8f2
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/3160568371da441b7f2fb57f2f1225404207e8f2
Author:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
AuthorDate: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:24:16 +0000
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CommitDate: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 10:01:06 +0100

sched: Protect task->cpus_allowed access in sched_getaffinity()

sched_getaffinity() is not protected against a concurrent
modification of the tasks affinity.

Serialize the access with task_rq_lock(task).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20091208202026.769251187@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
---
 kernel/sched.c |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 281da29..c4635f7 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -6631,6 +6631,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(sched_setaffinity, pid_t, pid, unsigned int, len,
 long sched_getaffinity(pid_t pid, struct cpumask *mask)
 {
 	struct task_struct *p;
+	unsigned long flags;
+	struct rq *rq;
 	int retval;
 
 	get_online_cpus();
@@ -6645,7 +6647,9 @@ long sched_getaffinity(pid_t pid, struct cpumask *mask)
 	if (retval)
 		goto out_unlock;
 
+	rq = task_rq_lock(p, &flags);
 	cpumask_and(mask, &p->cpus_allowed, cpu_online_mask);
+	task_rq_unlock(rq, &flags);
 
 out_unlock:
 	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
--
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