From cf7b708c8d1d7a27736771bcf4c457b332b0f818 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pavel Emelyanov Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:39:54 -0700 Subject: Make access to task's nsproxy lighter When someone wants to deal with some other taks's namespaces it has to lock the task and then to get the desired namespace if the one exists. This is slow on read-only paths and may be impossible in some cases. E.g. Oleg recently noticed a race between unshare() and the (sent for review in cgroups) pid namespaces - when the task notifies the parent it has to know the parent's namespace, but taking the task_lock() is impossible there - the code is under write locked tasklist lock. On the other hand switching the namespace on task (daemonize) and releasing the namespace (after the last task exit) is rather rare operation and we can sacrifice its speed to solve the issues above. The access to other task namespaces is proposed to be performed like this: rcu_read_lock(); nsproxy = task_nsproxy(tsk); if (nsproxy != NULL) { / * * work with the namespaces here * e.g. get the reference on one of them * / } / * * NULL task_nsproxy() means that this task is * almost dead (zombie) * / rcu_read_unlock(); This patch has passed the review by Eric and Oleg :) and, of course, tested. [clg@fr.ibm.com: fix unshare()] [ebiederm@xmission.com: Update get_net_ns_by_pid] Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'net') diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c index 1072d16696c..4a2640d3826 100644 --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c @@ -744,10 +744,10 @@ static struct net *get_net_ns_by_pid(pid_t pid) rcu_read_lock(); tsk = find_task_by_pid(pid); if (tsk) { - task_lock(tsk); - if (tsk->nsproxy) - net = get_net(tsk->nsproxy->net_ns); - task_unlock(tsk); + struct nsproxy *nsproxy; + nsproxy = task_nsproxy(tsk); + if (nsproxy) + net = get_net(nsproxy->net_ns); } rcu_read_unlock(); return net; -- cgit v1.2.3