Re: [PATCH] exit: fix oops in sync_mm_rss

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:41:24 +0900 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> > With this fixed, the test for non-zero tsk->mm is't really needed in
> > do_exit(), is it?  I guess it makes sense though - sync_mm_rss() only
> > really works for kernel threads by luck..
> 
> At first, I considered so, too. But I changed my mind to show
> "we know tsk->mm can be NULL here!" by code. 
> Because __sync_mm_rss_stat() has BUG_ON(!mm), the code reader will think
> tsk->mm shouldn't be NULL always.
> 
> Doesn't make sense ?

uh, not really ;)


I think we should do this too:

--- a/mm/memory.c~exit-fix-oops-in-sync_mm_rss-fix
+++ a/mm/memory.c
@@ -131,7 +131,6 @@ static void __sync_task_rss_stat(struct 
 
 	for (i = 0; i < NR_MM_COUNTERS; i++) {
 		if (task->rss_stat.count[i]) {
-			BUG_ON(!mm);
 			add_mm_counter(mm, i, task->rss_stat.count[i]);
 			task->rss_stat.count[i] = 0;
 		}
_

Because we just made sure it can't happen, and if it _does_ happen, the
oops will tell us the samme thing that the BUG_ON() would have.