Re: [PATCH 1/2] pidfd: verify task is alive when printing fdinfo

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 10/15, Christian Brauner wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 04:43:57PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > But in fact I'd suggest to simply use !hlist_empty(&pid->tasks[PIDTYPE_PID])
> > in pidfd_show_fdinfo() and do not add a new helper.
>
> Sounds good to me. But can't we then just do something similar just with
> !hlist_empty(&pid->tasks[PIDTYPE_TGID])
>
> in v5.4-rc3:kernel/pid.c:pidfd_open():514-517 ?

Agreed. Actually, it seems to me I suggested to use rcu_lock_acquire() rather
than rcu_read_lock() in pidfd_open() too.

But hlist_empty(pid->tasks[type]) looks even better.

If you decide to add a new helper, you can also change do_wait() which checks
hlist_empty(&wo->wo_pid->tasks[wo->wo_type]). May be even __change_pid().

Oleg.