pids: introduce change_pid() helper

Based on Eric W. Biederman's idea.

Without tasklist_lock held task_session()/task_pgrp() can return NULL if the
caller races with setprgp()/setsid() which does detach_pid() + attach_pid().
This can happen even if task == current.

Intoduce the new helper, change_pid(), which should be used instead.  This way
the caller always sees the special pid != NULL, either old or new.

Also change the prototype of attach_pid(), it always returns 0 and nobody
check the returned value.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc:  "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/pid.h b/include/linux/pid.h
index c7980810eb09..8d199033c0ca 100644
--- a/include/linux/pid.h
+++ b/include/linux/pid.h
@@ -89,9 +89,11 @@ extern struct pid *get_task_pid(struct task_struct *task, enum pid_type type);
  * attach_pid() and detach_pid() must be called with the tasklist_lock
  * write-held.
  */
-extern int attach_pid(struct task_struct *task, enum pid_type type,
-		      struct pid *pid);
+extern void attach_pid(struct task_struct *task, enum pid_type type,
+			struct pid *pid);
 extern void detach_pid(struct task_struct *task, enum pid_type);
+extern void change_pid(struct task_struct *task, enum pid_type,
+			struct pid *pid);
 extern void transfer_pid(struct task_struct *old, struct task_struct *new,
 			 enum pid_type);