The call simply looks up the corresponding task (without iterating the tasklist), which is safe under rcu instead of the tasklist_lock. In addition, the setaffinity counter part already does this. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@xxxxxxx> --- arch/mips/kernel/mips-mt-fpaff.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/mips-mt-fpaff.c b/arch/mips/kernel/mips-mt-fpaff.c index 1a08428eedcf..6c590ef27648 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/mips-mt-fpaff.c +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/mips-mt-fpaff.c @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ asmlinkage long mipsmt_sys_sched_getaffinity(pid_t pid, unsigned int len, return -EINVAL; get_online_cpus(); - read_lock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_lock(); retval = -ESRCH; p = find_process_by_pid(pid); @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ asmlinkage long mipsmt_sys_sched_getaffinity(pid_t pid, unsigned int len, cpumask_and(&mask, &allowed, cpu_active_mask); out_unlock: - read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_unlock(); put_online_cpus(); if (retval) return retval; -- 2.26.2
