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@ 2026-03-06 19:01 Mateusz Guzik
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From: Mateusz Guzik @ 2026-03-06 19:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: brauner; +Cc: linux-kernel, linux-mm, oleg, Mateusz Guzik

Commit 6d864a1b182532e7 ("pid: only take pidmap_lock once on alloc")
landed v2 of the patch instead of v3. This patch remedies the problem.

No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
---
 kernel/pid.c | 19 +++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index 2f1dbcbc2349..dbe82062e683 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ struct pid *alloc_pid(struct pid_namespace *ns, pid_t *arg_set_tid,
 	 * for a process in all nested PID namespaces but arg_set_tid_size must
 	 * never be greater than the current ns->level + 1.
 	 */
-	if (arg_set_tid_size > ns->level + 1)
+	if (unlikely(arg_set_tid_size > ns->level + 1))
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 
 	/*
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ struct pid *alloc_pid(struct pid_namespace *ns, pid_t *arg_set_tid,
 	 * 1. allocate and fill in pid struct
 	 */
 	pid = kmem_cache_alloc(ns->pid_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!pid)
+	if (unlikely(!pid))
 		return ERR_PTR(retval);
 
 	get_pid_ns(ns);
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ struct pid *alloc_pid(struct pid_namespace *ns, pid_t *arg_set_tid,
 	 * This stores found pid_max to make sure the used value is the same should
 	 * later code need it.
 	 */
-	for (tmp = ns, i = ns->level; i >= 0; i--) {
+	for (tmp = ns, i = ns->level; i >= 0;) {
 		pid_max[ns->level - i] = READ_ONCE(tmp->pid_max);
 
 		if (arg_set_tid_size) {
@@ -227,6 +227,7 @@ struct pid *alloc_pid(struct pid_namespace *ns, pid_t *arg_set_tid,
 		}
 
 		tmp = tmp->parent;
+		i--;
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -247,10 +248,9 @@ struct pid *alloc_pid(struct pid_namespace *ns, pid_t *arg_set_tid,
 				       tid + 1, GFP_ATOMIC);
 			/*
 			 * If ENOSPC is returned it means that the PID is
-			 * alreay in use. Return EEXIST in that case.
+			 * already in use. Return EEXIST in that case.
 			 */
 			if (nr == -ENOSPC)
-
 				nr = -EEXIST;
 		} else {
 			int pid_min = 1;
@@ -276,12 +276,11 @@ struct pid *alloc_pid(struct pid_namespace *ns, pid_t *arg_set_tid,
 			 * Preload more memory if idr_alloc{,cyclic} failed with -ENOMEM.
 			 *
 			 * The IDR API only allows us to preload memory for one call, while we may end
-			 * up doing several under pidmap_lock with GFP_ATOMIC. The situation may be
-			 * salvageable with GFP_KERNEL. But make sure to not loop indefinitely if preload
-			 * did not help (the routine unfortunately returns void, so we have no idea
-			 * if it got anywhere).
+			 * up doing several with GFP_ATOMIC. It may be the situation is salvageable with
+			 * GFP_KERNEL. But make sure to not loop indefinitely if preload did not help
+			 * (the routine unfortunately returns void, so we have no idea if it got anywhere).
 			 *
-			 * The lock can be safely dropped and picked up as historically pid allocation
+			 * The pidmap lock can be safely dropped and picked up as historically pid allocation
 			 * for different namespaces was *not* atomic -- we try to hold on to it the
 			 * entire time only for performance reasons.
 			 */
-- 
2.48.1



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