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oom: fix the unsafe usage of badness() in proc_oom_score()
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proc_oom_score(task) has a reference to task_struct, but that is all.
If this task was already released before we take tasklist_lock

	- we can't use task->group_leader, it points to nowhere

	- it is not safe to call badness() even if this task is
	  ->group_leader, has_intersects_mems_allowed() assumes
	  it is safe to iterate over ->thread_group list.

	- even worse, badness() can hit ->signal == NULL

Add the pid_alive() check to ensure __unhash_process() was not called.

Also, use "task" instead of task->group_leader. badness() should return
the same result for any sub-thread. Currently this is not true, but
this should be changed anyway.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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oleg-nesterov authored and torvalds committed Apr 1, 2010
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5 changes: 3 additions & 2 deletions fs/proc/base.c
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Expand Up @@ -442,12 +442,13 @@ static const struct file_operations proc_lstats_operations = {
unsigned long badness(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long uptime);
static int proc_oom_score(struct task_struct *task, char *buffer)
{
unsigned long points;
unsigned long points = 0;
struct timespec uptime;

do_posix_clock_monotonic_gettime(&uptime);
read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
points = badness(task->group_leader, uptime.tv_sec);
if (pid_alive(task))
points = badness(task, uptime.tv_sec);
read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
return sprintf(buffer, "%lu\n", points);
}
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