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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: oom: Fix race condition between oom_badness and do_exit of task
[Sorry about the slow response but I was offline for almost two weeks
and catching up with a tsunami in my inbox now]

On Fri 09-03-18 19:48:46, 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.

This however adds a subtle assumption on locking here and we should
rather not do so. The scope of alloc_lock is quite messy already and
adding on top is definitely not an improvement.

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

--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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