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mm: avoid null-pointer deref in sync_mm_rss() 

- We weren't zeroing p->rss_stat[] at fork()

- Consequently sync_mm_rss() was dereferencing tsk->mm for kernel
  threads and was oopsing.

- Make __sync_task_rss_stat() static, too.

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15648

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove the BUG_ON(!mm->rss)]
Reported-by: Troels Liebe Bentsen <tlb@rapanden.dk>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 2010-04-06 14:34:42 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent b01d0942c2
commit a3a2e76c77
3 changed files with 6 additions and 3 deletions
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kernel/exit.c
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@ -953,7 +953,8 @@ NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long code)
acct_update_integrals(tsk);
/* sync mm's RSS info before statistics gathering */
sync_mm_rss(tsk, tsk->mm);
if (tsk->mm)
sync_mm_rss(tsk, tsk->mm);
group_dead = atomic_dec_and_test(&tsk->signal->live);
if (group_dead) {
hrtimer_cancel(&tsk->signal->real_timer);

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kernel/fork.c
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@ -1052,6 +1052,9 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
p->prev_utime = cputime_zero;
p->prev_stime = cputime_zero;
#endif
#if defined(SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING)
memset(&p->rss_stat, 0, sizeof(p->rss_stat));
#endif
p->default_timer_slack_ns = current->timer_slack_ns;

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mm/memory.c
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@ -125,13 +125,12 @@ core_initcall(init_zero_pfn);
#if defined(SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING)
void __sync_task_rss_stat(struct task_struct *task, struct mm_struct *mm)
static void __sync_task_rss_stat(struct task_struct *task, struct mm_struct *mm)
{
int i;
for (i = 0; i < NR_MM_COUNTERS; i++) {
if (task->rss_stat.count[i]) {
BUG_ON(!mm);
add_mm_counter(mm, i, task->rss_stat.count[i]);
task->rss_stat.count[i] = 0;
}