[ 088/187] mm: correctly synchronize rss-counters at exit/exec

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Jul 12 2012 - 19:32:15 EST


From: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 4fe7efdbdfb1c7e7a7f31decfd831c0f31d37091 upstream.

do_exit() and exec_mmap() call sync_mm_rss() before mm_release() does
put_user(clear_child_tid) which can update task->rss_stat and thus make
mm->rss_stat inconsistent. This triggers the "BUG:" printk in check_mm().

Let's fix this bug in the safest way, and optimize/cleanup this later.

Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
fs/exec.c | 2 +-
kernel/exit.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -823,10 +823,10 @@ static int exec_mmap(struct mm_struct *m
/* Notify parent that we're no longer interested in the old VM */
tsk = current;
old_mm = current->mm;
- sync_mm_rss(old_mm);
mm_release(tsk, old_mm);

if (old_mm) {
+ sync_mm_rss(old_mm);
/*
* Make sure that if there is a core dump in progress
* for the old mm, we get out and die instead of going
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -643,6 +643,7 @@ static void exit_mm(struct task_struct *
mm_release(tsk, mm);
if (!mm)
return;
+ sync_mm_rss(mm);
/*
* Serialize with any possible pending coredump.
* We must hold mmap_sem around checking core_state


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