Commit bce9a234 authored by Oleg Nesterov's avatar Oleg Nesterov Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] elf_fdpic_core_dump: don't take tasklist_lock

do_each_thread() is rcu-safe, and all tasks which use this ->mm must sleep
in wait_for_completion(&mm->core_done) at this point, so we can use RCU
locks.

Also, remove unneeded INIT_LIST_HEAD(new) before list_add(new, head).
Signed-off-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-By: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 486ccb05
......@@ -1597,20 +1597,19 @@ static int elf_fdpic_core_dump(long signr, struct pt_regs *regs,
if (signr) {
struct elf_thread_status *tmp;
read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
rcu_read_lock();
do_each_thread(g,p)
if (current->mm == p->mm && current != p) {
tmp = kzalloc(sizeof(*tmp), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!tmp) {
read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
rcu_read_unlock();
goto cleanup;
}
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tmp->list);
tmp->thread = p;
list_add(&tmp->list, &thread_list);
}
while_each_thread(g,p);
read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
rcu_read_unlock();
list_for_each(t, &thread_list) {
struct elf_thread_status *tmp;
int sz;
......
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