[PATCH v3 0/9] Fixes for common mistakes w/ for_each_process and task->mm
Anton Vorontsov
anton.vorontsov at linaro.org
Mon Apr 23 17:06:41 EST 2012
Hi all,
This is another resend of several task->mm fixes, the bugs I found
during LMK code audit. Architectures were traverse the tasklist
in an unsafe manner, plus there are a few cases of unsafe access to
task->mm in general.
There were no objections on the previous resend, and the final words
were somewhere along "the patches are fine" line.
In v3:
- Dropped a controversal 'Make find_lock_task_mm() sparse-aware' patch;
- Reword arm and sh commit messages, per Oleg Nesterov's suggestions;
- Added an optimization trick in clear_tasks_mm_cpumask(): take only
the rcu read lock, no need for the whole tasklist_lock.
Suggested by Peter Zijlstra.
In v2:
- introduced a small helper in cpu.c: most arches duplicate the
same [buggy] code snippet, so it's better to fix it and move the
logic into a common function.
Thanks,
--
Anton Vorontsov
Email: cbouatmailru at gmail.com
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