From: Kees Cook Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:39:26 +0000 (-0800) Subject: sched: Mark parent and real_parent as __rcu X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=abd63bc3a0f65ae9d85bc3b1bb067d3e3c2b2cc2;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git sched: Mark parent and real_parent as __rcu The parent and real_parent pointers should be considered __rcu, since they should be held under either tasklist_lock or rcu_read_lock. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Al Viro Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111214223925.GA27578@www.outflux.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index cc8c6206657f..5ef09012a629 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -1330,8 +1330,8 @@ struct task_struct { * older sibling, respectively. (p->father can be replaced with * p->real_parent->pid) */ - struct task_struct *real_parent; /* real parent process */ - struct task_struct *parent; /* recipient of SIGCHLD, wait4() reports */ + struct task_struct __rcu *real_parent; /* real parent process */ + struct task_struct __rcu *parent; /* recipient of SIGCHLD, wait4() reports */ /* * children/sibling forms the list of my natural children */