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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] taskstats: add_del_listener() shouldn't use the wrong node
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 21:00 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> 1. 26c4caea "don't allow duplicate entries in listener mode"
> changed add_del_listener(REGISTER) so that "next_cpu:" can
> reuse the listener allocated for the previous cpu, this
> doesn't look exactly right even if minor.
>
> Change the code to kfree() in the already-registered case,
> this case is unlikely anyway so the extra kmalloc_node()
> shouldn't hurt but looke more correct and clean.
>
> 2. use the plain list_for_each_entry() instead of _safe() to
> scan listeners->list.
>
> 3. Remove the unneeded INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->list), we are going
> to list_add(&s->list).

I don't know whether (1) is needed, looks very minor to me. Other than
that:

> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>

> ---
>
> kernel/taskstats.c | 16 +++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> --- ts/kernel/taskstats.c~1_cleanup 2011-07-03 16:27:57.000000000 +0200
> +++ ts/kernel/taskstats.c 2011-07-20 19:35:38.000000000 +0200
> @@ -291,30 +291,28 @@ static int add_del_listener(pid_t pid, c
> if (!cpumask_subset(mask, cpu_possible_mask))
> return -EINVAL;
>
> - s = NULL;
> if (isadd == REGISTER) {
> for_each_cpu(cpu, mask) {
> - if (!s)
> - s = kmalloc_node(sizeof(struct listener),
> - GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu));
> + s = kmalloc_node(sizeof(struct listener),
> + GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu));
> if (!s)
> goto cleanup;
> +
> s->pid = pid;
> - INIT_LIST_HEAD(&s->list);
> s->valid = 1;
>
> listeners = &per_cpu(listener_array, cpu);
> down_write(&listeners->sem);
> - list_for_each_entry_safe(s2, tmp, &listeners->list, list) {
> + list_for_each_entry(s2, &listeners->list, list) {
> if (s2->pid == pid)
> - goto next_cpu;
> + goto exists;
> }
> list_add(&s->list, &listeners->list);
> s = NULL;
> -next_cpu:
> +exists:
> up_write(&listeners->sem);
> + kfree(s); /* nop if NULL */
> }
> - kfree(s);
> return 0;
> }
>
>

--
Vasiliy Kulikov
http://www.openwall.com - bringing security into open computing environments


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