Re: [PATCH] mm: oom: Fix race condition between oom_badness and do_exit of task

[Tetsuo Handa]

Kohli, Gaurav wrote:
> On 3/9/2018 4:18 PM, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> 
> > Kohli, Gaurav wrote:
> >>> t->alloc_lock is still held when leaving find_lock_task_mm(), which means
> >>> that t->mm != NULL. But nothing prevents t from setting t->mm = NULL at
> >>> exit_mm() from do_exit() and calling exit_creds() from __put_task_struct(t)
> >>> after task_unlock(t) is called. Seems difficult to trigger race window. Maybe
> >>> something has preempted because oom_badness() becomes outside of RCU grace
> >>> period upon leaving find_lock_task_mm() when called from proc_oom_score().
> >> Hi Tetsuo,
> >>
> >> Yes it is not easy to reproduce seen twice till now and i agree with
> >> your analysis. But David has already fixing this in different way,
> >> So that also looks better to me:
> >>
> >> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10265641/
> >>
> > Yes, I'm aware of that patch.
> >
> >> But if need to keep that code, So we have to bump up the task
> >> reference that's only i can think of now.
> > I don't think so, for I think it is safe to call
> > has_capability_noaudit(p) with p->alloc_lock held.
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
> > index f2e7dfb..4efcfb8 100644
> > --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
> > +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
> > @@ -222,7 +222,6 @@ unsigned long oom_badness(struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
> >   	 */
> >   	points = get_mm_rss(p->mm) + get_mm_counter(p->mm, MM_SWAPENTS) +
> >   		mm_pgtables_bytes(p->mm) / PAGE_SIZE;
> > -	task_unlock(p);
> >   
> >   	/*
> >   	 * Root processes get 3% bonus, just like the __vm_enough_memory()
> > @@ -230,6 +229,7 @@ unsigned long oom_badness(struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
> >   	 */
> >   	if (has_capability_noaudit(p, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> >   		points -= (points * 3) / 100;
> > +	task_unlock(p);
> 
> Earlier i have thought the same to post this, but this may create 
> problem if there are sleeping calls in
> 
> has_capability_noaudit ?

has_capability_noaudit() does not sleep. See what has_ns_capability_noaudit() is doing.

> 
> >   
> >   	/* Normalize to oom_score_adj units */
> >   	adj *= totalpages / 1000;
> >
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