From 701188374b6f1ef9cf7e4dce4a2e69ef4c0012ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:44:16 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] kernel/sys.c: fix missing rcu protection for
 sys_getpriority()

find_task_by_vpid() is not safe without rcu_read_lock().  2.6.33-rc7 got
RCU protection for sys_setpriority() but missed it for sys_getpriority().

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 kernel/sys.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 26a6b73a6b85..18bde979f346 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -222,6 +222,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(getpriority, int, which, int, who)
 	if (which > PRIO_USER || which < PRIO_PROCESS)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	rcu_read_lock();
 	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
 	switch (which) {
 		case PRIO_PROCESS:
@@ -267,6 +268,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(getpriority, int, which, int, who)
 	}
 out_unlock:
 	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	return retval;
 }
-- 
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