Re: 3.0rc2 oops in mem_cgroup_from_task

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>]

On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:33:11 +0900
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 18:30:49 -0700 (PDT)
> Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> wrote:
 
> > 781cc621 <mem_cgroup_from_task>:
> > 781cc621:	55                   	push   %ebp
> > 781cc622:	31 c0                	xor    %eax,%eax
> > 781cc624:	89 e5                	mov    %esp,%ebp
> > 781cc626:	8b 55 08             	mov    0x8(%ebp),%edx
> > 781cc629:	85 d2                	test   %edx,%edx
> > 781cc62b:	74 09                	je     781cc636 <mem_cgroup_from_task+0x15>
> > 781cc62d:	8b 82 fc 08 00 00    	mov    0x8fc(%edx),%eax
> > 781cc633:	8b 40 1c             	mov    0x1c(%eax),%eax   <==========
> > 781cc636:	c9                   	leave  
> > 781cc637:	c3                   	ret    
> > 
> 
> then, access to task->cgroups->subsys[?] causes access to 6b6b6b87...
> 
> Then, task->cgroups or task->cgroups->subsys contains bad pointer.
> Considering khugepaged, it grabs mm_struct and memcg make an access to
> (mm->owner)->cgroups->subsys.
> 
> Then, from memcg's point of view, we need to doubt mm->owner is valid or not
> for this kind of tasks.
> 

Dave's log shows 6b6b6b6b6b..., too.

I guess it as "POISON_FREE" of slab object. Then, task->cgroups may used after free.


Thanks,
-Kame

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