[PATCH] simply fix first_tgid
authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:52 +0000 (00:25 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:58:25 +0000 (09:58 -0700)
Like the bug Oleg spotted in first_tid there was also a small off by one
error in first_tgid, when a seek was done on the /proc directory.  This
fixes that and changes the code structure to make it a little more obvious
what is going on.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
fs/proc/base.c

index 8180579..bbcaef9 100644 (file)
@@ -2040,34 +2040,32 @@ out:
  * In the case of a seek we start with &init_task and walk nr
  * threads past it.
  */
-static struct task_struct *first_tgid(int tgid, int nr)
+static struct task_struct *first_tgid(int tgid, unsigned int nr)
 {
-       struct task_struct *pos = NULL;
+       struct task_struct *pos;
        rcu_read_lock();
        if (tgid && nr) {
                pos = find_task_by_pid(tgid);
-               if (pos && !thread_group_leader(pos))
-                       pos = NULL;
-               if (pos)
-                       nr = 0;
+               if (pos && thread_group_leader(pos))
+                       goto found;
        }
        /* If nr exceeds the number of processes get out quickly */
+       pos = NULL;
        if (nr && nr >= nr_processes())
                goto done;
 
        /* If we haven't found our starting place yet start with
         * the init_task and walk nr tasks forward.
         */
-       if (!pos && (nr >= 0))
-               pos = next_task(&init_task);
-
-       for (; pos && pid_alive(pos); pos = next_task(pos)) {
-               if (--nr > 0)
-                       continue;
-               get_task_struct(pos);
-               goto done;
+       for (pos = next_task(&init_task); nr > 0; --nr) {
+               pos = next_task(pos);
+               if (pos == &init_task) {
+                       pos = NULL;
+                       goto done;
+               }
        }
-       pos = NULL;
+found:
+       get_task_struct(pos);
 done:
        rcu_read_unlock();
        return pos;