Commit 983bfb7d authored by Nadia Derbey's avatar Nadia Derbey Committed by Linus Torvalds
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ipc: call idr_find() without locking in ipc_lock()



Call idr_find() locklessly from ipc_lock(), since the idr tree is now RCU
protected.

Signed-off-by: default avatarNadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Acked-by: default avatar"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Jim Houston <jim.houston@comcast.net>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <peifferp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent cf481c20
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@@ -688,10 +688,6 @@ void ipc64_perm_to_ipc_perm (struct ipc64_perm *in, struct ipc_perm *out)
 * Look for an id in the ipc ids idr and lock the associated ipc object.
 *
 * The ipc object is locked on exit.
 *
 * This is the routine that should be called when the rw_mutex is not already
 * held, i.e. idr tree not protected: it protects the idr tree in read mode
 * during the idr_find().
 */

struct kern_ipc_perm *ipc_lock(struct ipc_ids *ids, int id)
@@ -699,18 +695,13 @@ struct kern_ipc_perm *ipc_lock(struct ipc_ids *ids, int id)
	struct kern_ipc_perm *out;
	int lid = ipcid_to_idx(id);

	down_read(&ids->rw_mutex);

	rcu_read_lock();
	out = idr_find(&ids->ipcs_idr, lid);
	if (out == NULL) {
		rcu_read_unlock();
		up_read(&ids->rw_mutex);
		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
	}

	up_read(&ids->rw_mutex);

	spin_lock(&out->lock);
	
	/* ipc_rmid() may have already freed the ID while ipc_lock