[PATCH] use ptrace_get_task_struct in various places
The ptrace_get_task_struct() helper that I added as part of the ptrace
consolidation is useful in variety of places that currently opencode it.
Switch them to the common helpers.
Add a ptrace_traceme() helper that needs to be explicitly called, and simplify
the ptrace_get_task_struct() interface. We don't need the request argument
now, and we return the task_struct directly, using ERR_PTR() for error
returns. It's a bit more code in the callers, but we have two sane routines
that do one thing well now.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/ptrace.c
index bbd3753..9969d21 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -265,30 +265,16 @@
lock_kernel();
DBG(DBG_MEM, ("request=%ld pid=%ld addr=0x%lx data=0x%lx\n",
request, pid, addr, data));
- ret = -EPERM;
if (request == PTRACE_TRACEME) {
- /* are we already being traced? */
- if (current->ptrace & PT_PTRACED)
- goto out_notsk;
- ret = security_ptrace(current->parent, current);
- if (ret)
- goto out_notsk;
- /* set the ptrace bit in the process ptrace flags. */
- current->ptrace |= PT_PTRACED;
- ret = 0;
+ ret = ptrace_traceme();
goto out_notsk;
}
- if (pid == 1) /* you may not mess with init */
- goto out_notsk;
- ret = -ESRCH;
- read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
- child = find_task_by_pid(pid);
- if (child)
- get_task_struct(child);
- read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
- if (!child)
+ child = ptrace_get_task_struct(pid);
+ if (IS_ERR(child)) {
+ ret = PTR_ERR(child);
goto out_notsk;
+ }
if (request == PTRACE_ATTACH) {
ret = ptrace_attach(child);