Commit fca178c0 authored by Oleg Nesterov's avatar Oleg Nesterov Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] fill_tgid: fix task_struct leak and possible oops

1. fill_tgid() forgets to do put_task_struct(first).

2. release_task(first) can happen after fill_tgid() drops tasklist_lock,
   it is unsafe to dereference first->signal.

This is a temporary fix, imho the locking should be reworked.
Signed-off-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 6e6d9fa6
......@@ -237,14 +237,17 @@ static int fill_tgid(pid_t tgid, struct task_struct *tgidtsk,
} else
get_task_struct(first);
tsk = first;
read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
/* Start with stats from dead tasks */
if (first->signal) {
spin_lock_irqsave(&first->signal->stats_lock, flags);
if (first->signal->stats)
memcpy(stats, first->signal->stats, sizeof(*stats));
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&first->signal->stats_lock, flags);
}
tsk = first;
read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
do {
if (tsk->exit_state == EXIT_ZOMBIE && thread_group_leader(tsk))
continue;
......@@ -264,7 +267,7 @@ static int fill_tgid(pid_t tgid, struct task_struct *tgidtsk,
* Accounting subsytems can also add calls here to modify
* fields of taskstats.
*/
put_task_struct(first);
return 0;
}
......
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