linux-kernel - [PATCH 10/12] pid: modify task_tgid

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Message-Id: <d4740f46a6b926e2753635460c68a3498b8d7a1e.1377032086.git.rgb@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 20 Aug 2013 17:32:02 -0400
From:	Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>
To:	linux-audit@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
	John Johansen <john.johansen@...onical.com>,
	James Morris <james.l.morris@...cle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@...data.co.jp>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 10/12] pid: modify task_tgid_nr to work without task->tgid.

task->tgid is an error prone construct and results in duplicate maintenance.
Start it's demise by modifying task_tgid_nr to not use it.

Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>
---
 include/linux/sched.h |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index fb09b93..8e69807 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1495,7 +1495,7 @@ static inline pid_t task_pid_vnr(struct task_struct *tsk)
 
 static inline pid_t task_tgid_nr(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
-	return tsk->tgid;
+	return pid_nr(task_tgid(tsk));
 }
 
 pid_t task_tgid_nr_ns(struct task_struct *tsk, struct pid_namespace *ns);
-- 
1.7.1

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