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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2010-02-23 02:04:50 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-02-25 10:34:26 +0100
commitd11c563dd20ff35da5652c3e1c989d9e10e1d6d0 (patch)
treeb189f50de7a01d7603935d4da7e755d764dfe67e /kernel/exit.c
parentnet: Add checking to rcu_dereference() primitives (diff)
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sched: Use lockdep-based checking on rcu_dereference()
Update the rcu_dereference() usages to take advantage of the new lockdep-based checking. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-6-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ -v2: fix allmodconfig missing symbol export build failure on x86 ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/exit.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/exit.c14
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 546774a31a66..45ed043b8bf5 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -85,7 +85,9 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk)
BUG_ON(!sig);
BUG_ON(!atomic_read(&sig->count));
- sighand = rcu_dereference(tsk->sighand);
+ sighand = rcu_dereference_check(tsk->sighand,
+ rcu_read_lock_held() ||
+ lockdep_is_held(&tasklist_lock));
spin_lock(&sighand->siglock);
posix_cpu_timers_exit(tsk);
@@ -170,8 +172,10 @@ void release_task(struct task_struct * p)
repeat:
tracehook_prepare_release_task(p);
/* don't need to get the RCU readlock here - the process is dead and
- * can't be modifying its own credentials */
+ * can't be modifying its own credentials. But shut RCU-lockdep up */
+ rcu_read_lock();
atomic_dec(&__task_cred(p)->user->processes);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
proc_flush_task(p);
@@ -473,9 +477,11 @@ static void close_files(struct files_struct * files)
/*
* It is safe to dereference the fd table without RCU or
* ->file_lock because this is the last reference to the
- * files structure.
+ * files structure. But use RCU to shut RCU-lockdep up.
*/
+ rcu_read_lock();
fdt = files_fdtable(files);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
for (;;) {
unsigned long set;
i = j * __NFDBITS;
@@ -521,10 +527,12 @@ void put_files_struct(struct files_struct *files)
* at the end of the RCU grace period. Otherwise,
* you can free files immediately.
*/
+ rcu_read_lock();
fdt = files_fdtable(files);
if (fdt != &files->fdtab)
kmem_cache_free(files_cachep, files);
free_fdtable(fdt);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
}
}