tree 2cd7e9a9102649a36d52cbac918f045dcfaa08f2
parent 8aeee85a29e27e043db582bf2ae8e5f42767934f
author Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> 1267825376 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1267903593 -0800

kernel/pid.c: update comment on find_task_by_pid_ns

tasklist_lock does protect the task and its pid, it can't go away.  The
problem is that find_pid_ns() itself is unsafe without rcu lock, it can
race with copy_process()->free_pid(any_pid).

Protecting copy_process()->free_pid(any_pid) with tasklist_lock would make
it possible to call find_task_by_pid_ns() under tasklist safely, but we
don't do so because we are trying to get rid of the read_lock sites of
tasklist_lock.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>