linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] waitid: Add support for waiting for the current process group

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Date:   Wed, 14 Aug 2019 14:50:12 +0200
From:   Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:     Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, libc-alpha@...rceware.org,
        alistair23@...il.com, ebiederm@...ssion.com, arnd@...db.de,
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        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, hpa@...or.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] waitid: Add support for waiting for the current
 process group

On 08/14, Christian Brauner wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 02:29:10PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > On 08/14, christian.brauner@...ntu.com wrote:
> > >
> > >  	case P_PGID:
> > >  		type = PIDTYPE_PGID;
> > > -		if (upid <= 0)
> > > +		if (upid < 0)
> > >  			return -EINVAL;
> > > +
> > > +		if (upid == 0)
> > > +			pid = get_pid(task_pgrp(current));
> >
> > this needs rcu lock or tasklist_lock, this can race with another thread
> > doing sys_setpgid/setsid (see change_pid(PIDTYPE_PGID)).
>
> Oh, I naively assumed task_pgrp() would take an rcu lock...

but it would not help ;)

> though I think we should be fine with just rcu_read_lock().

Yes,

Oleg.