linux-kernel - rcu_read_lock/unlock protect find_task_by_vpid call in posix_cpu_timer

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Message-ID: <20101125010948.GA1371@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 24 Nov 2010 20:09:48 -0500
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: rcu_read_lock/unlock protect find_task_by_vpid call in
 posix_cpu_timer_create

===================================================
[ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
---------------------------------------------------
kernel/pid.c:419 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!

other info that might help us debug this:


rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
1 lock held by scrashme/20820:
 #0:  (tasklist_lock){.?.?..}, at: [<ffffffff8106e30f>] posix_cpu_timer_create+0x50/0xee

stack backtrace:
Pid: 20820, comm: scrashme Not tainted 2.6.37-rc3+ #7
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8107cfd5>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0x9d/0xa5
 [<ffffffff81069d08>] find_task_by_pid_ns+0x44/0x5d
 [<ffffffff81069d43>] find_task_by_vpid+0x22/0x24
 [<ffffffff8106e32d>] posix_cpu_timer_create+0x6e/0xee
 [<ffffffff8106eb88>] do_cpu_nanosleep+0x83/0x1ad
 [<ffffffff8106f50a>] posix_cpu_nsleep+0x6d/0xf6
 [<ffffffff810f9a64>] ? might_fault+0xa5/0xac
 [<ffffffff810f9a1b>] ? might_fault+0x5c/0xac
 [<ffffffff8106bf57>] sys_clock_nanosleep+0x7c/0xcb
 [<ffffffff81009cb2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>

diff --git a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
index 6842eeb..2658955 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -391,6 +391,7 @@ int posix_cpu_timer_create(struct k_itimer *new_timer)
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&new_timer->it.cpu.entry);
 
 	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+	rcu_read_lock();
 	if (CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD(new_timer->it_clock)) {
 		if (pid == 0) {
 			p = current;
@@ -414,6 +415,7 @@ int posix_cpu_timer_create(struct k_itimer *new_timer)
 	} else {
 		ret = -EINVAL;
 	}
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
 
 	return ret;
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