[GIT PULL] timer fixes

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Nov 26 2010 - 08:41:37 EST


Linus,

Please pull the latest timers-fixes-for-linus git tree from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git timers-fixes-for-linus

Thanks,

Ingo

------------------>
Sergey Senozhatsky (1):
posix-cpu-timers: Rcu_read_lock/unlock protect find_task_by_vpid call


kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c | 12 ++++++------
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
index 6842eeb..05bb717 100644
--- a/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
+++ b/kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c
@@ -37,13 +37,13 @@ static int check_clock(const clockid_t which_clock)
if (pid == 0)
return 0;

- read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+ rcu_read_lock();
p = find_task_by_vpid(pid);
if (!p || !(CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD(which_clock) ?
- same_thread_group(p, current) : thread_group_leader(p))) {
+ same_thread_group(p, current) : has_group_leader_pid(p))) {
error = -EINVAL;
}
- read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+ rcu_read_unlock();

return error;
}
@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ int posix_cpu_timer_create(struct k_itimer *new_timer)

INIT_LIST_HEAD(&new_timer->it.cpu.entry);

- read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+ rcu_read_lock();
if (CPUCLOCK_PERTHREAD(new_timer->it_clock)) {
if (pid == 0) {
p = current;
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ int posix_cpu_timer_create(struct k_itimer *new_timer)
p = current->group_leader;
} else {
p = find_task_by_vpid(pid);
- if (p && !thread_group_leader(p))
+ if (p && !has_group_leader_pid(p))
p = NULL;
}
}
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ int posix_cpu_timer_create(struct k_itimer *new_timer)
} else {
ret = -EINVAL;
}
- read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+ rcu_read_unlock();

return ret;
}
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