linux/lib/is_single_threaded.c
Oleg Nesterov d2e3ee9b29 kernel: fix is_single_threaded
- Fix the comment, is_single_threaded(p) actually means that nobody shares
  ->mm with p.

  I think this helper should be renamed, and it should not have arguments.
  With or without this patch it must not be used unless p == current,
  otherwise we can't safely use p->signal or p->mm.

- "if (atomic_read(&p->signal->count) != 1)" is not right when we have a
  zombie group leader, use signal->live instead.

- Add PF_KTHREAD check to skip kernel threads which may borrow p->mm,
  otherwise we can return the wrong "false".

- Use for_each_process() instead of do_each_thread(), all threads must use
  the same ->mm.

- Use down_write(mm->mmap_sem) + rcu_read_lock() instead of tasklist_lock
  to iterate over the process list. If there is another CLONE_VM process
  it can't pass exit_mm() which takes the same mm->mmap_sem. We can miss
  a freshly forked CLONE_VM task, but this doesn't matter because we must
  see its parent and return false.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-07-17 09:09:36 +10:00

56 lines
1.2 KiB
C

/* Function to determine if a thread group is single threaded or not
*
* Copyright (C) 2008 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
* Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
* - Derived from security/selinux/hooks.c
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
* 2 of the Licence, or (at your option) any later version.
*/
#include <linux/sched.h>
/*
* Returns true if the task does not share ->mm with another thread/process.
*/
bool is_single_threaded(struct task_struct *task)
{
struct mm_struct *mm = task->mm;
struct task_struct *p, *t;
bool ret;
might_sleep();
if (atomic_read(&task->signal->live) != 1)
return false;
if (atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) == 1)
return true;
ret = false;
down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
rcu_read_lock();
for_each_process(p) {
if (unlikely(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD))
continue;
if (unlikely(p == task->group_leader))
continue;
t = p;
do {
if (unlikely(t->mm == mm))
goto found;
if (likely(t->mm))
break;
} while_each_thread(p, t);
}
ret = true;
found:
rcu_read_unlock();
up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
return ret;
}