sched: Use rcu in sys_sched_getscheduler/sys_sched_getparam()
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Wed, 9 Dec 2009 10:14:58 +0000 (10:14 +0000)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:11:34 +0000 (17:11 +0100)
commit5fe85be081edf0ac92d83f9c39e0ab5c1371eb82
tree6c8d313aec92310787c14b7d289f69e3e5e38711
parent663997d417330a59a566452f52cfa04c8ffd190b
sched: Use rcu in sys_sched_getscheduler/sys_sched_getparam()

read_lock(&tasklist_lock) does not protect
sys_sched_getscheduler and sys_sched_getparam() against a
concurrent update of the policy or scheduler parameters as
do_sched_setscheduler() does not take the tasklist_lock. The
accessed integers can be retrieved w/o locking and are snapshots
anyway.

Using rcu_read_lock() to protect find_task_by_vpid() and prevent
the task struct from going away is not changing the above
situation.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20091209100706.753790977@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/sched.c