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Commit 337546e8 authored by Suren Baghdasaryan's avatar Suren Baghdasaryan Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm/oom_kill.c: prevent a race between process_mrelease and exit_mmap

Race between process_mrelease and exit_mmap, where free_pgtables is
called while __oom_reap_task_mm is in progress, leads to kernel crash
during pte_offset_map_lock call.  oom-reaper avoids this race by setting
MMF_OOM_VICTIM flag and causing exit_mmap to take and release
mmap_write_lock, blocking it until oom-reaper releases mmap_read_lock.

Reusing MMF_OOM_VICTIM for process_mrelease would be the simplest way to
fix this race, however that would be considered a hack.  Fix this race
by elevating mm->mm_users and preventing exit_mmap from executing until
process_mrelease is finished.  Patch slightly refactors the code to
adapt for a possible mmget_not_zero failure.

This fix has considerable negative impact on process_mrelease
performance and will likely need later optimization.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211022014658.263508-1-surenb@google.com


Fixes: 884a7e59 ("mm: introduce process_mrelease system call")
Signed-off-by: default avatarSuren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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