From 733eda7ac316cd4e550fa096e4ed42356dc546e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:08:43 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] memcg: clear mm->owner when last possible owner leaves The following crash was reported: > Call Trace: > [] mem_cgroup_from_task+0x15/0x17 > [] __mem_cgroup_try_charge+0x148/0x4b4 > [] ? need_resched+0x23/0x2d > [] ? preempt_schedule+0x46/0x4f > [] mem_cgroup_charge_common+0x9a/0xce > [] mem_cgroup_newpage_charge+0x5d/0x5f > [] khugepaged+0x5da/0xfaf > [] ? __init_waitqueue_head+0x4b/0x4b > [] ? add_mm_counter.constprop.5+0x13/0x13 > [] kthread+0xa8/0xb0 > [] ? sub_preempt_count+0xa1/0xb4 > [] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 > [] ? retint_restore_args+0x13/0x13 > [] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x5a/0x5a What happens is that khugepaged tries to charge a huge page against an mm whose last possible owner has already exited, and the memory controller crashes when the stale mm->owner is used to look up the cgroup to charge. mm->owner has never been set to NULL with the last owner going away, but nobody cared until khugepaged came along. Even then it wasn't a problem because the final mmput() on an mm was forced to acquire and release mmap_sem in write-mode, preventing an exiting owner to go away while the mmap_sem was held, and until "692e0b3 mm: thp: optimize memcg charge in khugepaged", the memory cgroup charge was protected by mmap_sem in read-mode. Instead of going back to relying on the mmap_sem to enforce lifetime of a task, this patch ensures that mm->owner is properly set to NULL when the last possible owner is exiting, which the memory controller can handle just fine. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comments] Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Reported-by: Hugh Dickins Reported-by: Dave Jones Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/exit.c | 31 +++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 20a4064..f2b321b 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -561,29 +561,28 @@ void exit_files(struct task_struct *tsk) #ifdef CONFIG_MM_OWNER /* - * Task p is exiting and it owned mm, lets find a new owner for it + * A task is exiting. If it owned this mm, find a new owner for the mm. */ -static inline int -mm_need_new_owner(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p) -{ - /* - * If there are other users of the mm and the owner (us) is exiting - * we need to find a new owner to take on the responsibility. - */ - if (atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) <= 1) - return 0; - if (mm->owner != p) - return 0; - return 1; -} - void mm_update_next_owner(struct mm_struct *mm) { struct task_struct *c, *g, *p = current; retry: - if (!mm_need_new_owner(mm, p)) + /* + * If the exiting or execing task is not the owner, it's + * someone else's problem. + */ + if (mm->owner != p) return; + /* + * The current owner is exiting/execing and there are no other + * candidates. Do not leave the mm pointing to a possibly + * freed task structure. + */ + if (atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) <= 1) { + mm->owner = NULL; + return; + } read_lock(&tasklist_lock); /* -- 2.7.4