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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/7] Containers (V8): Add generic multi-subsystem API to containers
On 4/6/07, Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 04:32:24PM -0700, menage@google.com wrote:
> > +static int attach_task(struct container *cont, struct task_struct *tsk)
> > {
>
> [snip]
>
> > + task_lock(tsk);
>
> You need to check here if task state is PF_EXITING and fail with
> -ESRCH if so? Otherwise we risk breaking refcount on
> init_container_group.
>

Yes, I think you're right; I've now changed it to this in my tree:

task_lock(tsk);
if (tsk->flags & PF_EXITING) {
task_unlock(tsk);
put_container_group(newcg);
return -ESRCH;
}
rcu_assign_pointer(tsk->containers, newcg);
task_unlock(tsk);

Thanks,

Paul
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