From dd1c1f2f2028a7b851f701fc6a8ebe39dcb95e7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 17:35:02 +0200 Subject: pids: make task_tgid_nr_ns() safe This was reported many times, and this was even mentioned in commit 52ee2dfdd4f5 ("pids: refactor vnr/nr_ns helpers to make them safe") but somehow nobody bothered to fix the obvious problem: task_tgid_nr_ns() is not safe because task->group_leader points to nowhere after the exiting task passes exit_notify(), rcu_read_lock() can not help. We really need to change __unhash_process() to nullify group_leader, parent, and real_parent, but this needs some cleanups. Until then we can turn task_tgid_nr_ns() into another user of __task_pid_nr_ns() and fix the problem. Reported-by: Troy Kensinger Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/pid.h | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/pid.h') diff --git a/include/linux/pid.h b/include/linux/pid.h index 4d179316e431..719582744a2e 100644 --- a/include/linux/pid.h +++ b/include/linux/pid.h @@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ enum pid_type PIDTYPE_PID, PIDTYPE_PGID, PIDTYPE_SID, - PIDTYPE_MAX + PIDTYPE_MAX, + /* only valid to __task_pid_nr_ns() */ + __PIDTYPE_TGID }; /* -- cgit v1.2.1