pids: Move the pgrp and session pid pointers from task_struct to signal_struct

To access these fields the code always has to go to group leader so
going to signal struct is no loss and is actually a fundamental simplification.

This saves a little bit of memory by only allocating the pid pointer array
once instead of once for every thread, and even better this removes a
few potential races caused by the fact that group_leader can be changed
by de_thread, while signal_struct can not.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 9440d61b925c..d2952162399b 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1549,10 +1549,22 @@ static void posix_cpu_timers_init(struct task_struct *tsk)
 static inline void posix_cpu_timers_init(struct task_struct *tsk) { }
 #endif
 
+static inline void init_task_pid_links(struct task_struct *task)
+{
+	enum pid_type type;
+
+	for (type = PIDTYPE_PID; type < PIDTYPE_MAX; ++type) {
+		INIT_HLIST_NODE(&task->pid_links[type]);
+	}
+}
+
 static inline void
 init_task_pid(struct task_struct *task, enum pid_type type, struct pid *pid)
 {
-	 task->pids[type].pid = pid;
+	if (type == PIDTYPE_PID)
+		task->thread_pid = pid;
+	else
+		task->signal->pids[type] = pid;
 }
 
 static inline void rcu_copy_process(struct task_struct *p)
@@ -1928,6 +1940,7 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
 		goto bad_fork_cancel_cgroup;
 	}
 
+	init_task_pid_links(p);
 	if (likely(p->pid)) {
 		ptrace_init_task(p, (clone_flags & CLONE_PTRACE) || trace);
 
@@ -2036,13 +2049,13 @@ fork_out:
 	return ERR_PTR(retval);
 }
 
-static inline void init_idle_pids(struct pid_link *links)
+static inline void init_idle_pids(struct task_struct *idle)
 {
 	enum pid_type type;
 
 	for (type = PIDTYPE_PID; type < PIDTYPE_MAX; ++type) {
-		INIT_HLIST_NODE(&links[type].node); /* not really needed */
-		links[type].pid = &init_struct_pid;
+		INIT_HLIST_NODE(&idle->pid_links[type]); /* not really needed */
+		init_task_pid(idle, type, &init_struct_pid);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -2052,7 +2065,7 @@ struct task_struct *fork_idle(int cpu)
 	task = copy_process(CLONE_VM, 0, 0, NULL, &init_struct_pid, 0, 0,
 			    cpu_to_node(cpu));
 	if (!IS_ERR(task)) {
-		init_idle_pids(task->pids);
+		init_idle_pids(task);
 		init_idle(task, cpu);
 	}