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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/8] arm: Fix possible race on task->mm
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 07:33:46PM +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 05:08:08PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > On 02/07, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> > >
> > > Checking for task->mm is dangerous as ->mm might disappear (exit_mm()
> > > assigns NULL under task_lock(), so tasklist lock is not enough).
> > >
> > > We can't use get_task_mm()/mmput() pair as mmput() might sleep,
> >
> > Yes, but
> >
> > > so let's take the task lock while we care about its mm.
> >
> > it seems that this needs find_lock_task_mm() too ?
> >
> > the same for the rest patches in this series.
>
> Yep, I think you're right, will add this change.

Thinking about it more... making the code use find_lock_task_mm
would be a behaviour change. Sure, in trivial cases like ARM this
looks like a 100% safe thing to do, but in e.g. UML case, I
wouldn't bet much money on that 'mm->context.id.u.pid' would be
still meaningful.

So, I'd rather do it in a separate change, so this can be easily
reverted.

--
Anton Vorontsov
Email: cbouatmailru@gmail.com


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