From 9728e5d6e6c432ee8487c63ce6e479e2474d9945 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tetsuo Handa Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 13:42:56 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] kernel/pid.c: update comment on find_task_by_pid_ns tasklist_lock does protect the task and its pid, it can't go away. The problem is that find_pid_ns() itself is unsafe without rcu lock, it can race with copy_process()->free_pid(any_pid). Protecting copy_process()->free_pid(any_pid) with tasklist_lock would make it possible to call find_task_by_pid_ns() under tasklist safely, but we don't do so because we are trying to get rid of the read_lock sites of tasklist_lock. Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed