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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Detect early free of a live mm
On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:14:58 +0000 Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:

> KASAN splats indicate that in some cases we free a live mm, then
> continue to access it, with potentially disastrous results. This is
> likely due to a mismatched mmdrop() somewhere in the kernel, but so far
> the culprit remains elusive.
>
> Let's have __mmdrop() verify that the mm isn't live for the current
> task, similar to the existing check for init_mm. This way, we can catch
> this class of issue earlier, and without requiring KASAN.

Presumably the results usually aren't disastrous. But they will be if
we go and add BUG_ON()s! Can we make this WARN_ON[_ONCE]()? We should
still get the same info from testers.

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