[Devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH 06/16] Define is_global_init()

[Dave Hansen]

On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 13:24 +0400, Pavel Emelianov wrote:
> > | > +int is_global_init(struct task_struct *tsk)
> > | > +{
> > | > + return (task_active_pid_ns(tsk) == &init_pid_ns && tsk->pid == 1);
> > | 
> > | This can OOPS if you pass arbitrary task to this call...
> > | tsk->nsproxy can already be NULL.
> > 
> > Hmm. You are right. btw, this could be a bisect issue. Patch 9 of uses
> > pid_ns from pid->upid_list and removes nsproxy->pid_ns.
> 
> Yes, but that patch is not good either.
> task_pid(tsk) may become NULL as well and this will oops.

Have you reviewed the call paths to make sure this can actually happen
in practice?

This just seems like another one of those racing-with-task-exit races.
Shouldn't be too invasive to solve.

-- Dave

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