On 10/26, Mike Rapoport wrote:
>
> There are several functions that do find_task_by_vpid() followed by
> get_task_struct(). We can use a helper function instead.
Yes, agreed, I was going to do this many times.
> --- a/kernel/futex.c
> +++ b/kernel/futex.c
> @@ -870,12 +870,7 @@ static struct task_struct *futex_find_get_task(pid_t pid)
> {
> struct task_struct *p;
>
> - rcu_read_lock();
> - p = find_task_by_vpid(pid);
> - if (p)
> - get_task_struct(p);
> -
> - rcu_read_unlock();
> + p = find_get_task_by_vpid(pid);
>
> return p;
OK, but then I think you should remove futex_find_get_task() and convert
it callers to use the new helper.
> @@ -1103,11 +1103,7 @@ static struct task_struct
> *ptrace_get_task_struct(pid_t pid)
> {
> struct task_struct *child;
>
> - rcu_read_lock();
> - child = find_task_by_vpid(pid);
> - if (child)
> - get_task_struct(child);
> - rcu_read_unlock();
> + child = find_get_task_by_vpid(pid);
>
> if (!child)
> return ERR_PTR(-ESRCH);
The same. ptrace_get_task_struct() should die imo.
Oleg.
