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authorMike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2018-02-06 15:40:17 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-02-06 18:32:46 -0800
commit2ee0826085d1c0281cb60c1f4bc3e0c27efeedc3 (patch)
treebb2dc8915be7e4f0fea7438edf380d84b896f80a /kernel/ptrace.c
parentdrivers/rapidio/devices/tsi721_dma.c: adjust six checks for null pointers (diff)
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pids: introduce find_get_task_by_vpid() helper
There are several functions that do find_task_by_vpid() followed by get_task_struct(). We can use a helper function instead. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509602027-11337-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/ptrace.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/ptrace.c27
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index 5e1d713c8e61..21fec73d45d4 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -1103,21 +1103,6 @@ int ptrace_request(struct task_struct *child, long request,
return ret;
}
-static struct task_struct *ptrace_get_task_struct(pid_t pid)
-{
- struct task_struct *child;
-
- rcu_read_lock();
- child = find_task_by_vpid(pid);
- if (child)
- get_task_struct(child);
- rcu_read_unlock();
-
- if (!child)
- return ERR_PTR(-ESRCH);
- return child;
-}
-
#ifndef arch_ptrace_attach
#define arch_ptrace_attach(child) do { } while (0)
#endif
@@ -1135,9 +1120,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(ptrace, long, request, long, pid, unsigned long, addr,
goto out;
}
- child = ptrace_get_task_struct(pid);
- if (IS_ERR(child)) {
- ret = PTR_ERR(child);
+ child = find_get_task_by_vpid(pid);
+ if (!child) {
+ ret = -ESRCH;
goto out;
}
@@ -1281,9 +1266,9 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4(ptrace, compat_long_t, request, compat_long_t, pid,
goto out;
}
- child = ptrace_get_task_struct(pid);
- if (IS_ERR(child)) {
- ret = PTR_ERR(child);
+ child = find_get_task_by_vpid(pid);
+ if (!child) {
+ ret = -ESRCH;
goto out;
}