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Subject[PATCH v4] mm, oom: Fix race when selecting process to kill
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The selection of the process to be killed happens in two spots:
first in select_bad_process and then a further refinement by
looking for child processes in oom_kill_process. Since this is
a two step process, it is possible that the process selected by
select_bad_process may get a SIGKILL just before oom_kill_process
executes. If this were to happen, __unhash_process deletes this
process from the thread_group list. This results in oom_kill_process
getting stuck in an infinite loop when traversing the thread_group
list of the selected process.

Fix this race by adding a pid_alive check for the selected process
with tasklist_lock held in oom_kill_process.

Signed-off-by: Sameer Nanda <snanda@chromium.org>
---
mm/oom_kill.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 6738c47..57638ef 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -413,12 +413,20 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
DEFAULT_RATELIMIT_BURST);

/*
+ * while_each_thread is currently not RCU safe. Lets hold the
+ * tasklist_lock across all invocations of while_each_thread (including
+ * the one in find_lock_task_mm) in this function.
+ */
+ read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
+
+ /*
* If the task is already exiting, don't alarm the sysadmin or kill
* its children or threads, just set TIF_MEMDIE so it can die quickly
*/
- if (p->flags & PF_EXITING) {
+ if (p->flags & PF_EXITING || !pid_alive(p)) {
set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE);
put_task_struct(p);
+ read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
return;
}

@@ -436,7 +444,6 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
* parent. This attempts to lose the minimal amount of work done while
* still freeing memory.
*/
- read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
do {
list_for_each_entry(child, &t->children, sibling) {
unsigned int child_points;
@@ -456,12 +463,17 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
}
}
} while_each_thread(p, t);
- read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);

- rcu_read_lock();
p = find_lock_task_mm(victim);
+
+ /*
+ * Since while_each_thread is currently not RCU safe, this unlock of
+ * tasklist_lock may need to be moved further down if any additional
+ * while_each_thread loops get added to this function.
+ */
+ read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+
if (!p) {
- rcu_read_unlock();
put_task_struct(victim);
return;
} else if (victim != p) {
@@ -478,6 +490,8 @@ void oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
K(get_mm_counter(victim->mm, MM_FILEPAGES)));
task_unlock(victim);

+ rcu_read_lock();
+
/*
* Kill all user processes sharing victim->mm in other thread groups, if
* any. They don't get access to memory reserves, though, to avoid
--
1.8.4.1


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