Hello.

On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 01:52:07PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:

quoted

diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index e794367f681e..e77c6c1fad34 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c

@@ -1118,6 +1118,8 @@ int do_madvise(struct task_struct *target_task, struct mm_struct *mm,
 	if (write) {
 		if (down_write_killable(&mm->mmap_sem))
 			return -EINTR;
+		if (current->mm != mm && !mmget_still_valid(mm))
+			goto skip_mm;

This will return 0, is that correct? Shoudln't there be a similar error e.g. as
when finding the task by pid fails (-ESRCH ?), because IIUC the task here is
going away and dumping the core?

Yeah.

Something like this then:

===

diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index 48d1da08c160..7ed2f4d13924 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c

@@ -1122,6 +1122,10 @@ int do_madvise(struct task_struct *target_task, struct mm_struct *mm,
 	if (write) {
 		if (down_write_killable(&mm->mmap_sem))
 			return -EINTR;
+		if (current->mm != mm && !mmget_still_valid(mm)) {
+			error = -ESRCH;
+			goto skip_mm;
+		}
 	} else {
 		down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 	}

@@ -1173,6 +1177,7 @@ int do_madvise(struct task_struct *target_task, struct mm_struct *mm,
 	}
 out:
 	blk_finish_plug(&plug);
+skip_mm:
 	if (write)
 		up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
 	else

===

?

quoted

 	} else {
 		down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 	}

@@ -1169,6 +1171,7 @@ int do_madvise(struct task_struct *target_task, struct mm_struct *mm,
 	}
 out:
 	blk_finish_plug(&plug);
+skip_mm:
 	if (write)
 		up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
 	else

-- 
  Best regards,
    Oleksandr Natalenko (post-factum)
    Principal Software Maintenance Engineer