On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 15:55 +0300, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > Commit 4221a9918e38b7494cee341dda7b7b4bb8c04bde "Add RCU check for > find_task_by_vpid()" introduced rcu_lockdep_assert to find_task_by_pid_ns. > Assertion failed in sys_ioprio_get. The patch is fixing assertion > failure in ioprio_set as well. > > =================================================== > [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ] > --------------------------------------------------- > kernel/pid.c:419 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection! > > rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0 > 1 lock held by iotop/4254: > #0: (tasklist_lock){.?.?..}, at: [<ffffffff811104b4>] sys_ioprio_get+0x22/0x2da > > stack backtrace: > Pid: 4254, comm: iotop Not tainted > Call Trace: > [<ffffffff810656f2>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0xaa/0xb2 > [<ffffffff81053c67>] find_task_by_pid_ns+0x4f/0x68 > [<ffffffff81053c9d>] find_task_by_vpid+0x1d/0x1f > [<ffffffff811104e2>] sys_ioprio_get+0x50/0x2da > [<ffffffff81002182>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b > > > Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > diff --git a/fs/ioprio.c b/fs/ioprio.c > index 748cfb9..666343d 100644 > --- a/fs/ioprio.c > +++ b/fs/ioprio.c > @@ -113,8 +113,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(ioprio_set, int, which, int, who, int, ioprio) > case IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS: > if (!who) > p = current; > - else > + else { > + rcu_read_lock(); > p = find_task_by_vpid(who); > + rcu_read_unlock(); > + } > if (p) > ret = set_task_ioprio(p, ioprio); > break; > @@ -202,8 +205,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(ioprio_get, int, which, int, who) > case IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS: > if (!who) > p = current; > - else > + else { > + rcu_read_lock(); > p = find_task_by_vpid(who); > + rcu_read_unlock(); > + } > if (p) > ret = get_task_ioprio(p); > break; If you add the rcu_read_lock/unlock() sections, we would also need to update the comment above accordingly. Thanks, Davidlohr From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxx> Subject: [PATCH] ioprio: remove comment to not use RCU Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ioprio.c | 5 ----- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ioprio.c b/fs/ioprio.c index 748cfb9..72d71de 100644 --- a/fs/ioprio.c +++ b/fs/ioprio.c @@ -103,11 +103,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(ioprio_set, int, which, int, who, int, ioprio) } ret = -ESRCH; - /* - * We want IOPRIO_WHO_PGRP/IOPRIO_WHO_USER to be "atomic", - * so we can't use rcu_read_lock(). See re-copy of ->ioprio - * in copy_process(). - */ read_lock(&tasklist_lock); switch (which) { case IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS: -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html