Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2012-03-06

suspicious RCU usage?

From: Mulyadi Santosa <hidden>
Date: 2012-03-06 15:30:29

Hi.... :)

On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 20:16, Peter Senna Tschudin
[off-list ref] wrote:
[ ?858.634435] kernel/pid.c:425 find_task_by_pid_ns() needs
rcu_read_lock() protection!
hmm....ok....kernel said that.... so...
int yfkm2_is_pid_running(pid_t pid)
{
? ? ? ?struct task_struct *q;

? ? ? ?q = find_task_by_vpid(pid);
I think this section that makes kernel barf. It wants you to grab
rcu_read_lock(), right before you do find_task_by_vpid().

What do you think? :)

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Mulyadi Santosa
Freelance Linux trainer and consultant

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