rcu_read_lock is required by grabbing the task refcount but it's not needed for ptrace_may_access. So we could release the rcu lock after task refcount is successfully grabbed to reduce the rcu holding time. Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/migrate.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c index da5a81052468..26943bd819e8 100644 --- a/mm/migrate.c +++ b/mm/migrate.c @@ -1907,17 +1907,16 @@ static struct mm_struct *find_mm_struct(pid_t pid, nodemask_t *mem_nodes) return ERR_PTR(-ESRCH); } get_task_struct(task); + rcu_read_unlock(); /* * Check if this process has the right to modify the specified * process. Use the regular "ptrace_may_access()" checks. */ if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_REALCREDS)) { - rcu_read_unlock(); mm = ERR_PTR(-EPERM); goto out; } - rcu_read_unlock(); mm = ERR_PTR(security_task_movememory(task)); if (IS_ERR(mm)) -- 2.23.0