From: KOSAKI Motohiro Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:13:39 +0000 (-0700) Subject: oom: __task_cred() need rcu_read_lock() X-Git-Tag: v2.6.36-rc2~17 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8d6c83f0ba5e1bd1e8bb2e3c7de4c276dc247f99;p=pandora-kernel.git oom: __task_cred() need rcu_read_lock() dump_tasks() needs to hold the RCU read lock around its access of the target task's UID. To this end it should use task_uid() as it only needs that one thing from the creds. The fact that dump_tasks() holds tasklist_lock is insufficient to prevent the target process replacing its credentials on another CPU. Then, this patch change to call rcu_read_lock() explicitly. =================================================== [ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ] --------------------------------------------------- mm/oom_kill.c:410 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection! other info that might help us debug this: rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1 4 locks held by kworker/1:2/651: #0: (events){+.+.+.}, at: [] process_one_work+0x137/0x4a0 #1: (moom_work){+.+...}, at: [] process_one_work+0x137/0x4a0 #2: (tasklist_lock){.+.+..}, at: [] out_of_memory+0x164/0x3f0 #3: (&(&p->alloc_lock)->rlock){+.+...}, at: [] find_lock_task_mm+0x2e/0x70 Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed