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| author | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2022-05-11 12:16:21 -0500 |
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| committer | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2022-05-11 12:41:48 -0500 |
| commit | b3f9916d81e8ffb21cbe7abccf63f86a5a1d598a (patch) | |
| tree | 1cc0cb57ee6ae02300d86f0325a7bff50dfae479 /kernel | |
| parent | 1b2552cbdbe099b51aaffa486c042b0a7bf0a808 (diff) | |
sched: Update task_tick_numa to ignore tasks without an mm
Qian Cai <quic_qiancai@quicinc.com> wrote:
> Reverting the last 3 commits of the series fixed a boot crash.
>
> 1b2552cbdbe0 fork: Stop allowing kthreads to call execve
> 753550eb0ce1 fork: Explicitly set PF_KTHREAD
> 68d85f0a33b0 init: Deal with the init process being a user mode process
>
> BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in task_nr_scan_windows.isra.0
> arch_atomic_long_read at ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-long.h:29
> (inlined by) atomic_long_read at ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:1266
> (inlined by) get_mm_counter at ./include/linux/mm.h:1996
> (inlined by) get_mm_rss at ./include/linux/mm.h:2049
> (inlined by) task_nr_scan_windows at kernel/sched/fair.c:1123
> Read of size 8 at addr 00000000000003d0 by task swapper/0/1
With the change to init and the user mode helper processes to not have
PF_KTHREAD set before they call kernel_execve the PF_KTHREAD test in
task_tick_numa became insufficient to detect all tasks that have
"->mm == NULL". Correct that by testing for "->mm == NULL" directly.
Reported-by: Qian Cai <quic_qiancai@quicinc.com>
Tested-by: Qian Cai <quic_qiancai@quicinc.com>
Fixes: 1b2552cbdbe0 ("fork: Stop allowing kthreads to call execve")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87r150ug1l.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index d4bd299d67ab..db6f0df9d43e 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -2915,7 +2915,7 @@ static void task_tick_numa(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *curr) /* * We don't care about NUMA placement if we don't have memory. */ - if ((curr->flags & (PF_EXITING | PF_KTHREAD)) || work->next != work) + if (!curr->mm || (curr->flags & (PF_EXITING | PF_KTHREAD)) || work->next != work) return; /* |