The patch titled mm/mempolicy.c: add rcu read lock to protect pid structure has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-mempolicyc-add-rcu-read-lock-to-protect-pid-structure.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: mm/mempolicy.c: add rcu read lock to protect pid structure From: Zeng Zhaoming <zengzm.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> find_task_by_vpid() should be protected by rcu_read_lock(), to prevent free_pid() reclaiming pid. Signed-off-by: Zeng Zhaoming <zengzm.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mempolicy.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff -puN mm/mempolicy.c~mm-mempolicyc-add-rcu-read-lock-to-protect-pid-structure mm/mempolicy.c --- a/mm/mempolicy.c~mm-mempolicyc-add-rcu-read-lock-to-protect-pid-structure +++ a/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -1307,15 +1307,18 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(migrate_pages, pid_t, pi goto out; /* Find the mm_struct */ + rcu_read_lock(); read_lock(&tasklist_lock); task = pid ? find_task_by_vpid(pid) : current; if (!task) { read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_unlock(); err = -ESRCH; goto out; } mm = get_task_mm(task); read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); + rcu_read_unlock(); err = -EINVAL; if (!mm) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from zengzm.kernel@xxxxxxxxx are mm-mempolicyc-add-rcu-read-lock-to-protect-pid-structure.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html