From b95c35e76b29ba812e5dabdd91592e25ec640e93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 15:13:57 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] oom: fix the unsafe usage of badness() in proc_oom_score() proc_oom_score(task) has a reference to task_struct, but that is all. If this task was already released before we take tasklist_lock - we can't use task->group_leader, it points to nowhere - it is not safe to call badness() even if this task is ->group_leader, has_intersects_mems_allowed() assumes it is safe to iterate over ->thread_group list. - even worse, badness() can hit ->signal == NULL Add the pid_alive() check to ensure __unhash_process() was not called. Also, use "task" instead of task->group_leader. badness() should return the same result for any sub-thread. Currently this is not true, but this should be changed anyway. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/proc/base.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c index a731084..b1f6e62 100644 --- a/fs/proc/base.c +++ b/fs/proc/base.c @@ -442,12 +442,13 @@ static const struct file_operations proc_lstats_operations = { unsigned long badness(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long uptime); static int proc_oom_score(struct task_struct *task, char *buffer) { - unsigned long points; + unsigned long points = 0; struct timespec uptime; do_posix_clock_monotonic_gettime(&uptime); read_lock(&tasklist_lock); - points = badness(task->group_leader, uptime.tv_sec); + if (pid_alive(task)) + points = badness(task, uptime.tv_sec); read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); return sprintf(buffer, "%lu\n", points); } -- 1.9.1