Re: [LKP] [mm, oom] c1e4c54f9c: BUG:KASAN:null-ptr-deref_in_d

From: çèé
Date: Sat Aug 04 2018 - 23:43:17 EST


Hi Michal and David,
AFAICS, the null pointer is the task_struct of p in the dump_header.
Why don't we just add a if before printing the victim task's
informaiton.

diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -438,14 +438,6 @@ static void dump_header(struct oom_control *oc,
struct task_struct *p)

cpuset_print_current_mems_allowed();
mem_cgroup_print_oom_context(oc->memcg, p);
- pr_cont(",task=%s,pid=%d,uid=%d\n", p->comm, p->pid,
- from_kuid(&init_user_ns, task_uid(p)));
+ if (p)
+ pr_cont(",task=%s,pid=%d,uid=%d", p->comm, p->pid,
+ from_kuid(&init_user_ns, task_uid(p)));
+ pr_cont("\n");
if (is_memcg_oom(oc))
mem_cgroup_print_oom_meminfo(oc->memcg);

Thanks
Zhoujian