Kill saved_tid. It looks ugly to update *tid and then restore the previous value if __task_pid_nr_ns() returns 0. Change this code to update *tid and common->pid_visiting once before return. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@xxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/bpf/task_iter.c | 11 ++++------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/bpf/task_iter.c b/kernel/bpf/task_iter.c index f51f476ec679..7473068ed313 100644 --- a/kernel/bpf/task_iter.c +++ b/kernel/bpf/task_iter.c @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ static struct task_struct *task_group_seq_get_next(struct bpf_iter_seq_task_comm { struct task_struct *task; struct pid *pid; - u32 saved_tid; + u32 next_tid; if (!*tid) { /* The first time, the iterator calls this function. */ @@ -70,21 +70,18 @@ static struct task_struct *task_group_seq_get_next(struct bpf_iter_seq_task_comm retry: task = next_thread(task); - saved_tid = *tid; - *tid = __task_pid_nr_ns(task, PIDTYPE_PID, common->ns); - if (!*tid || *tid == common->pid) { + next_tid = __task_pid_nr_ns(task, PIDTYPE_PID, common->ns); + if (!next_tid || next_tid == common->pid) { /* Run out of tasks of a process. The tasks of a * thread_group are linked as circular linked list. */ - *tid = saved_tid; return NULL; } - common->pid_visiting = *tid; - if (skip_if_dup_files && task->files == task->group_leader->files) goto retry; + *tid = common->pid_visiting = next_tid; get_task_struct(task); return task; } -- 2.25.1.362.g51ebf55