Re: [PATCH] procfs: Fix listing of /proc/NOT_A_TGID/task

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Guillaume Chazarain <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I think this is 2.6.20 material, if it gets appropriately reviewed ;-)

Look good to me.

Lookup doesn't have this problem because it only tests for tgid.
I'm not certain at the moment if we need the rcu_read_lock,
and pid_alive checks, but at worst they are overkill.

> Thanks.
>
> -- 
> Guillaume
>
> Listing /proc/PID/task were PID is not a TGID
> should not result in duplicated entries.
>
> [g ~]$ pidof thunderbird-bin
> 2751
> [g ~]$ ls /proc/2751/task
> 2751  2770  2771  2824  2826  2834  2835  2851  2853
> [g ~]$ ls /proc/2770/task
> 2751  2770  2771  2824  2826  2834  2835  2851  2853
> 2770  2771  2824  2826  2834  2835  2851  2853
> [g ~]$ 
>
> Signed-off-by: Guillaume Chazarain <[email protected]>
> ---
>
>  fs/proc/base.c |   12 +++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff -r f99a8b402753 fs/proc/base.c
> --- a/fs/proc/base.c	Wed Jan 31 05:00:31 2007 +0000
> +++ b/fs/proc/base.c	Thu Feb 01 00:25:33 2007 +0100
> @@ -2328,13 +2328,23 @@ static int proc_task_readdir(struct file
>  {
>  	struct dentry *dentry = filp->f_path.dentry;
>  	struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
> -	struct task_struct *leader = get_proc_task(inode);
> +	struct task_struct *leader = NULL;
>  	struct task_struct *task;
>  	int retval = -ENOENT;
>  	ino_t ino;
>  	int tid;
>  	unsigned long pos = filp->f_pos; /* avoiding "long long" filp->f_pos */
>  
> +	task = get_proc_task(inode);
> +	if (!task)
> +		goto out_no_task;
> +	rcu_read_lock();
> +	if (pid_alive(task)) {
> +		leader = task->group_leader;
> +		get_task_struct(leader);
> +	}
> +	rcu_read_unlock();
> +	put_task_struct(task);
>  	if (!leader)
>  		goto out_no_task;
>  	retval = 0;
-
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