Re: [RFC] ipc: introduce shm_rmid_forced sysctl

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Mon Jul 04 2011 - 11:12:03 EST


On 06/22, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
>
> +void exit_shm(struct task_struct *task)
> +{
> + struct nsproxy *nsp = task->nsproxy;
> + struct ipc_namespace *ns;
> +
> + if (!nsp)
> + return;
> + ns = nsp->ipc_ns;
> + if (!ns || !ns->shm_rmid_forced)

This looks confusing, imho. How it is possible that ->nsproxy or
->ipc_ns is NULL?

> + return;
> +
> + /* Destroy all already created segments, but not mapped yet */
> + down_write(&shm_ids(ns).rw_mutex);
> + idr_for_each(&shm_ids(ns).ipcs_idr, &shm_try_destroy_current, ns);
> up_write(&shm_ids(ns).rw_mutex);

Again, I do not pretend I understand ipc/, but it seems we can check
ns->ipc_ids[].in_use != 0 before the slow path, no?

Oleg.

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