Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] mm/migration: reduce the rcu lock duration

[ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx]

On Mon, 2022-04-25 at 21:27 +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> rcu_read_lock is required by grabbing the task refcount but it's not
> needed for ptrace_may_access. So we could release the rcu lock after
> task refcount is successfully grabbed to reduce the rcu holding time.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/migrate.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
> index b2678279eb43..b779646665fe 100644
> --- a/mm/migrate.c
> +++ b/mm/migrate.c
> @@ -1902,17 +1902,16 @@ static struct mm_struct *find_mm_struct(pid_t pid, nodemask_t *mem_nodes)
>  		return ERR_PTR(-ESRCH);
>  	}
>  	get_task_struct(task);
> +	rcu_read_unlock();
>  
> 
>  	/*
>  	 * Check if this process has the right to modify the specified
>  	 * process. Use the regular "ptrace_may_access()" checks.
>  	 */
>  	if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_REALCREDS)) {
> -		rcu_read_unlock();
>  		mm = ERR_PTR(-EPERM);
>  		goto out;
>  	}
> -	rcu_read_unlock();
>  
> 
>  	mm = ERR_PTR(security_task_movememory(task));
>  	if (IS_ERR(mm))

Hi, Miaohe,

Please check the previous discussion and verify whether the original
reported race condition is stll valid by yourself before resending this
patch again.  If you find that the original race condition isn't
possible now, please add the analysis in your change log.

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying