Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> writes:

> pidns_get()->get_pid_ns() can hit ns == NULL. This task_struct can't
> go away, but task_active_pid_ns(task) is NULL if release_task(task)
> was already called. Alternatively we could change get_pid_ns(ns) to
> check ns != NULL, but it seems that other callers are fine.

get_pid_ns already has a ns == NULL check, so no code changes should be
needed.

Eric

>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
>
> --- x/kernel/pid_namespace.c
> +++ x/kernel/pid_namespace.c
> @@ -318,7 +318,9 @@ static void *pidns_get(struct task_struct *task)
>       struct pid_namespace *ns;
>  
>       rcu_read_lock();
> -     ns = get_pid_ns(task_active_pid_ns(task));
> +     ns = task_active_pid_ns(task);
> +     if (ns)
> +             get_pid_ns(ns);
>       rcu_read_unlock();
>  
>       return ns;
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