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| author | Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2008-09-28 23:09:31 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-09-29 08:41:47 -0700 |
| commit | 31a78f23bac0069004e69f98808b6988baccb6b6 (patch) | |
| tree | edca8cffb4682de6be2e79b0b8d381dbb1b70964 /kernel/exit.c | |
| parent | bf5cb66447e7d9f7f111c1d0ebb6d7c90ec24b4d (diff) | |
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mm owner: fix race between swapoff and exit
There's a race between mm->owner assignment and swapoff, more easily
seen when task slab poisoning is turned on. The condition occurs when
try_to_unuse() runs in parallel with an exiting task. A similar race
can occur with callers of get_task_mm(), such as /proc/<pid>/<mmstats>
or ptrace or page migration.
CPU0 CPU1
try_to_unuse
looks at mm = task0->mm
increments mm->mm_users
task 0 exits
mm->owner needs to be updated, but no
new owner is found (mm_users > 1, but
no other task has task->mm = task0->mm)
mm_update_next_owner() leaves
mmput(mm) decrements mm->mm_users
task0 freed
dereferencing mm->owner fails
The fix is to notify the subsystem via mm_owner_changed callback(),
if no new owner is found, by specifying the new task as NULL.
Jiri Slaby:
mm->owner was set to NULL prior to calling cgroup_mm_owner_callbacks(), but
must be set after that, so as not to pass NULL as old owner causing oops.
Daisuke Nishimura:
mm_update_next_owner() may set mm->owner to NULL, but mem_cgroup_from_task()
and its callers need to take account of this situation to avoid oops.
Hugh Dickins:
Lockdep warning and hang below exec_mmap() when testing these patches.
exit_mm() up_reads mmap_sem before calling mm_update_next_owner(),
so exec_mmap() now needs to do the same. And with that repositioning,
there's now no point in mm_need_new_owner() allowing for NULL mm.
Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/exit.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/exit.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 16395644a98f..85a83c831856 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -583,8 +583,6 @@ mm_need_new_owner(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p) * If there are other users of the mm and the owner (us) is exiting * we need to find a new owner to take on the responsibility. */ - if (!mm) - return 0; if (atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) <= 1) return 0; if (mm->owner != p) @@ -627,6 +625,16 @@ retry: } while_each_thread(g, c); read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); + /* + * We found no owner yet mm_users > 1: this implies that we are + * most likely racing with swapoff (try_to_unuse()) or /proc or + * ptrace or page migration (get_task_mm()). Mark owner as NULL, + * so that subsystems can understand the callback and take action. + */ + down_write(&mm->mmap_sem); + cgroup_mm_owner_callbacks(mm->owner, NULL); + mm->owner = NULL; + up_write(&mm->mmap_sem); return; assign_new_owner: |