pid: generalize task_active_pid_ns

Currently task_active_pid_ns is not safe to call after a task becomes a
zombie and exit_task_namespaces is called, as nsproxy becomes NULL.  By
reading the pid namespace from the pid of the task we can trivially solve
this problem at the cost of one extra memory read in what should be the
same cacheline as we read the namespace from.

When moving things around I have made task_active_pid_ns out of line
because keeping it in pid_namespace.h would require adding includes of
pid.h and sched.h that I don't think we want.

This change does make task_active_pid_ns unsafe to call during
copy_process until we attach a pid on the task_struct which seems to be a
reasonable trade off.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Bastian Blank <bastian@waldi.eu.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
index d82fe825d62f9571fe6412700d854a326f5d8c4c..38d10326246afbbec371b5cddc2beaff37f1dd48 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
+++ b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
@@ -79,11 +79,7 @@ static inline void zap_pid_ns_processes(struct pid_namespace *ns)
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_PID_NS */
 
-static inline struct pid_namespace *task_active_pid_ns(struct task_struct *tsk)
-{
-       return tsk->nsproxy->pid_ns;
-}
-
+extern struct pid_namespace *task_active_pid_ns(struct task_struct *tsk);
 void pidhash_init(void);
 void pidmap_init(void);
 

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 7b8f2a78be3db0820c479cba2d83ea8f2562be46..4018308048cf8f52db8202cf5969c14a919830d1 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1126,12 +1126,12 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
 
        if (pid != &init_struct_pid) {
                retval = -ENOMEM;
-               pid = alloc_pid(task_active_pid_ns(p));
+               pid = alloc_pid(p->nsproxy->pid_ns);
                if (!pid)
                        goto bad_fork_cleanup_io;
 
                if (clone_flags & CLONE_NEWPID) {
-                       retval = pid_ns_prepare_proc(task_active_pid_ns(p));
+                       retval = pid_ns_prepare_proc(p->nsproxy->pid_ns);
                        if (retval < 0)
                                goto bad_fork_free_pid;
                }

diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index af9224cdd6c0f4bf00f206879df9a4dcf5254d2c..1b3586fe753afc25a482f92e78b46483d90a369c 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -474,6 +474,12 @@ pid_t task_session_nr_ns(struct task_struct *tsk, struct pid_namespace *ns)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(task_session_nr_ns);
 
+struct pid_namespace *task_active_pid_ns(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+       return ns_of_pid(task_pid(tsk));
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(task_active_pid_ns);
+
 /*
  * Used by proc to find the first pid that is greater than or equal to nr.
  *