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[v2,5/5] pid: use task_alive() in pidfd_open()

Message ID 20191016153606.2326-5-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series [1/2] pidfd: verify task is alive when printing fdinfo | expand

Commit Message

Christian Brauner Oct. 16, 2019, 3:36 p.m. UTC 
Use the new task_alive() helper in pidfd_open(). This simplifies the
code and avoids taking rcu_read_{lock,unlock}() and leads to overall
nicer code.

Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
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/* v1 */
patch not present

/* v2 */
patch introduced
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 kernel/pid.c | 12 +++++-------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index 70ad4a9f728c..1f425b6c4c47 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@  static int pidfd_create(struct pid *pid)
  */
 SYSCALL_DEFINE2(pidfd_open, pid_t, pid, unsigned int, flags)
 {
-	int fd, ret;
+	int fd;
 	struct pid *p;
 
 	if (flags)
@@ -510,13 +510,11 @@  SYSCALL_DEFINE2(pidfd_open, pid_t, pid, unsigned int, flags)
 	if (!p)
 		return -ESRCH;
 
-	ret = 0;
-	rcu_read_lock();
-	if (!pid_task(p, PIDTYPE_TGID))
-		ret = -EINVAL;
-	rcu_read_unlock();
+	if (task_alive(p, PIDTYPE_TGID))
+		fd = pidfd_create(p);
+	else
+		fd = -EINVAL;
 
-	fd = ret ?: pidfd_create(p);
 	put_pid(p);
 	return fd;
 }