shm: optimize locking and ipc_namespace getting
shm_lock() does a lookup of shm segment in shm_ids(ns).ipcs_idr, which
is redundant as we already know shmid_kernel address. An actual lock is
also not required for reads until we really want to destroy the segment.
exit_shm() and shm_destroy_orphaned() may avoid the loop by checking
whether there is at least one segment in current ipc_namespace.
The check of nsproxy and ipc_ns against NULL is redundant as exit_shm()
is called from do_exit() before the call to exit_notify(), so the
dereferencing current->nsproxy->ipc_ns is guaranteed to be safe.
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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