pids: introduce find_get_task_by_vpid() helper

There are several functions that do find_task_by_vpid() followed by
get_task_struct().  We can use a helper function instead.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509602027-11337-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index 5d30c87e3c42..ed6c343fe50d 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -343,6 +343,19 @@ struct task_struct *find_task_by_vpid(pid_t vnr)
 	return find_task_by_pid_ns(vnr, task_active_pid_ns(current));
 }
 
+struct task_struct *find_get_task_by_vpid(pid_t nr)
+{
+	struct task_struct *task;
+
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	task = find_task_by_vpid(nr);
+	if (task)
+		get_task_struct(task);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+
+	return task;
+}
+
 struct pid *get_task_pid(struct task_struct *task, enum pid_type type)
 {
 	struct pid *pid;