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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, rientjes@google.com,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] oom: __task_cred() need rcu_read_lock()
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:26:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100819152618.21246.68223.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)

From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>

dump_tasks() needs to hold the RCU read lock around its access of the target
task's UID.  To this end it should use task_uid() as it only needs that one
thing from the creds.

The fact that dump_tasks() holds tasklist_lock is insufficient to prevent the
target process replacing its credentials on another CPU.

Then, this patch change to call rcu_read_lock() explicitly.


	===================================================
	[ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
	---------------------------------------------------
	mm/oom_kill.c:410 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!

	other info that might help us debug this:

	rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
	4 locks held by kworker/1:2/651:
	 #0:  (events){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8106aae7>]
	process_one_work+0x137/0x4a0
	 #1:  (moom_work){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff8106aae7>]
	process_one_work+0x137/0x4a0
	 #2:  (tasklist_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff810fafd4>]
	out_of_memory+0x164/0x3f0
	 #3:  (&(&p->alloc_lock)->rlock){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff810fa48e>]
	find_lock_task_mm+0x2e/0x70

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
---

 mm/oom_kill.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 5014e50..7b03102 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ static void dump_tasks(const struct mem_cgroup *mem)
 		}
 
 		pr_info("[%5d] %5d %5d %8lu %8lu %3u     %3d         %5d %s\n",
-			task->pid, __task_cred(task)->uid, task->tgid,
+			task->pid, task_uid(task), task->tgid,
 			task->mm->total_vm, get_mm_rss(task->mm),
 			task_cpu(task), task->signal->oom_adj,
 			task->signal->oom_score_adj, task->comm);

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             reply	other threads:[~2010-08-19 15:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-19 15:26 David Howells [this message]
2010-08-19 15:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-19 20:34 ` David Rientjes
2010-08-20  0:09 ` KOSAKI Motohiro

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