On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:50:18 +0100
Sébastien Dugué <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> +static long aio_setup_sigevent(struct aio_notify *notify,
> + struct sigevent __user *user_event)
> +{
> + sigevent_t event;
> + struct task_struct *target;
> +
> + if (copy_from_user(&event, user_event, sizeof (event)))
> + return -EFAULT;
> +
> + if (event.sigev_notify == SIGEV_NONE)
> + return 0;
> +
> + notify->notify = event.sigev_notify;
> + notify->signo = event.sigev_signo;
> + notify->value = event.sigev_value;
> +
> + read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
> + target = good_sigevent(&event);
> +
> + if (unlikely(!target || (target->flags & PF_EXITING)))
> + goto out_unlock;
> +
> + /*
> + * At this point, we know that notify is either SIGEV_SIGNAL or
> + * SIGEV_THREAD_ID and the target task is valid. So get a reference
> + * on the task, it will be dropped in really_put_req() when
> + * we're done with the request.
> + */
> + get_task_struct(target);
> + notify->target = target;
> + read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
> +
> + /*
> + * NOTE: we cannot free the sigqueue in the completion path as
> + * the signal may not have been delivered to the target task.
> + * Therefore it has to be freed in __sigqueue_free() when the
> + * signal is collected if si_code is SI_ASYNCIO.
> + */
> + notify->sigq = sigqueue_alloc();
> +
> + if (unlikely(!notify->sigq))
> + return -EAGAIN;
Did this just leak a ref on the task_struct?
> +
> + return 0;
> +
> +out_unlock:
> + read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
> + return -EINVAL;
> +}
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