pids: improve get_task_pid() to fix the unsafe sys_wait4()->task_pgrp()
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:58:36 +0000 (16:58 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 3 Apr 2009 02:05:02 +0000 (19:05 -0700)
commit2ae448efc87df6d328f5835969076c7f9fce59c3
treef110b43fa7c6b3c80f9b18a8e4fef728ed57f448
parent6dda81f4384b94930826eded254d8c16f89a9248
pids: improve get_task_pid() to fix the unsafe sys_wait4()->task_pgrp()

sys_wait4() does get_pid(task_pgrp(current)), this is not safe.  We can
add rcu lock/unlock around, but we already have get_task_pid() which can
be improved to handle the special pids in more reliable manner.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@kerlabs.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/exit.c
kernel/pid.c