ptrace: don't take tasklist to get/set ->last_siginfo
Change ptrace_getsiginfo/ptrace_setsiginfo to use lock_task_sighand()
without tasklist_lock. Perhaps it makes sense to make a single helper
with "bool rw" argument.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index a64fe75..61c78b2 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -424,37 +424,33 @@
static int ptrace_getsiginfo(struct task_struct *child, siginfo_t *info)
{
+ unsigned long flags;
int error = -ESRCH;
- read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
- if (likely(child->sighand != NULL)) {
+ if (lock_task_sighand(child, &flags)) {
error = -EINVAL;
- spin_lock_irq(&child->sighand->siglock);
if (likely(child->last_siginfo != NULL)) {
*info = *child->last_siginfo;
error = 0;
}
- spin_unlock_irq(&child->sighand->siglock);
+ unlock_task_sighand(child, &flags);
}
- read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
return error;
}
static int ptrace_setsiginfo(struct task_struct *child, const siginfo_t *info)
{
+ unsigned long flags;
int error = -ESRCH;
- read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
- if (likely(child->sighand != NULL)) {
+ if (lock_task_sighand(child, &flags)) {
error = -EINVAL;
- spin_lock_irq(&child->sighand->siglock);
if (likely(child->last_siginfo != NULL)) {
*child->last_siginfo = *info;
error = 0;
}
- spin_unlock_irq(&child->sighand->siglock);
+ unlock_task_sighand(child, &flags);
}
- read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
return error;
}
