Thread (13 messages) 13 messages, 6 authors, 2012-06-11
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[PATCH] mm: correctly synchronize rss-counters at exit/exec

From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <hidden>
Date: 2012-06-09 09:43:40
Also in: linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem: exec & binfmt api, elf, filesystems (vfs and infrastructure), the rest · Maintainers: Kees Cook, Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner, Linus Torvalds

do_exit() and exec_mmap() call sync_mm_rss() before mm_release()
does put_user(clear_child_tid) which can update task->rss_stat
and thus make mm->rss_stat inconsistent. This triggers the "BUG:"
printk in check_mm().

Let's fix this bug in the safest way, and optimize/cleanup this later.

Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <redacted>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <redacted>
---
 fs/exec.c     |    2 +-
 kernel/exit.c |    1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index a79786a..da27b91 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -819,10 +819,10 @@ static int exec_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm)
 	/* Notify parent that we're no longer interested in the old VM */
 	tsk = current;
 	old_mm = current->mm;
-	sync_mm_rss(old_mm);
 	mm_release(tsk, old_mm);
 
 	if (old_mm) {
+		sync_mm_rss(old_mm);
 		/*
 		 * Make sure that if there is a core dump in progress
 		 * for the old mm, we get out and die instead of going
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index 34867cc..c0277d3 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -643,6 +643,7 @@ static void exit_mm(struct task_struct * tsk)
 	mm_release(tsk, mm);
 	if (!mm)
 		return;
+	sync_mm_rss(mm);
 	/*
 	 * Serialize with any possible pending coredump.
 	 * We must hold mmap_sem around checking core_state
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