From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: anton.vorontsov@linaro.org (Anton Vorontsov) Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:09:35 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 8/9] um: Fix possible race on task->mm In-Reply-To: <20120423070641.GA27702@lizard> References: <20120423070641.GA27702@lizard> Message-ID: <20120423070935.GH30752@lizard> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Checking for task->mm is dangerous as ->mm might disappear (exit_mm() assigns NULL under task_lock(), so tasklist lock is not enough). We can't use get_task_mm()/mmput() pair as mmput() might sleep, so let's take the task lock while we care about its mm. Note that we should also use find_lock_task_mm() to check all process' threads for a valid mm, but for uml we'll do it in a separate patch. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov --- arch/um/kernel/reboot.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/reboot.c b/arch/um/kernel/reboot.c index 66d754c..1411f4e 100644 --- a/arch/um/kernel/reboot.c +++ b/arch/um/kernel/reboot.c @@ -25,10 +25,13 @@ static void kill_off_processes(void) read_lock(&tasklist_lock); for_each_process(p) { - if (p->mm == NULL) + task_lock(p); + if (!p->mm) { + task_unlock(p); continue; - + } pid = p->mm->context.id.u.pid; + task_unlock(p); os_kill_ptraced_process(pid, 1); } read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); -- 1.7.9.2