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SubjectRe: [PATCH] proc: add locking checks in proc_inode_is_dead
On 11/29, Wen Yang wrote:
>
> The proc_inode_is_dead function might race with __unhash_process.
> This will result in a whole bunch of stale proc entries being cached.
> To prevent that, add the required locking.

I leave this to Eric but I don't understand how can this patch help,
__unhash_process() can be called right after proc_inode_is_dead().

And in any case, we certainly do not want to take tasklist_lock in
proc_inode_is_dead().

>
> Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wenyang@linux.alibaba.com>
> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
> Cc: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
> ---
> fs/proc/base.c | 8 +++++++-
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
> index 1bc9bcd..59720bc 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/base.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/base.c
> @@ -1994,7 +1994,13 @@ static int pid_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags)
>
> static inline bool proc_inode_is_dead(struct inode *inode)
> {
> - return !proc_pid(inode)->tasks[PIDTYPE_PID].first;
> + bool has_task;
> +
> + read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
> + has_task = pid_has_task(proc_pid(inode), PIDTYPE_PID);
> + read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
> +
> + return !has_task;
> }
>
> int pid_delete_dentry(const struct dentry *dentry)
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>

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