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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Cc: dave@sr71.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Subject: Re: oops in proc_pid_stat() on task->real_parent?
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 22:18:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041207221821.068568f4.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041207220753.E469@build.pdx.osdl.net>

Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> * Andrew Morton (akpm@osdl.org) wrote:
> > yup, we fixed that one.
> 
> I thought the same thing, but this oops is from proc_pid_stat, not
> proc_pid_status.  The code is now in do_task_stat(), and the oops is
> within the orignal tasklist lock (instead of dropping and reaquiring the
> lock).  So, might be fixed, but if so, I think for a different reason.
> 

Ah, thanks.

I'm not sure that the holding of tasklist_lock is going to save us there. 
But then, Manfred recently did an audit, so I'm probably missing something.

Manfred, should we do this?

--- 25/fs/proc/array.c~do_task_stat-use-pid_alive	2004-12-07 22:17:01.378528576 -0800
+++ 25-akpm/fs/proc/array.c	2004-12-07 22:17:10.140196600 -0800
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct task_stru
 			stime += task->signal->stime;
 		}
 	}
-	ppid = task->pid ? task->group_leader->real_parent->tgid : 0;
+	ppid = pid_alive(task) ? task->group_leader->real_parent->tgid : 0;
 	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
 
 	if (!whole || num_threads<2)
_


  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-08  6:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-08  0:55 Dave Hansen
2004-12-08  6:00 ` Andrew Morton
2004-12-08  6:07   ` Chris Wright
2004-12-08  6:18     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-12-08 17:02       ` Chris Wright
2004-12-08  7:46     ` Dinakar Guniguntala

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