Re: Soft lockups during reading /proc/PID/smaps

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

On 07/31, Aleksei Besogonov wrote:
>
> On 31 Jul 2014, at 00:43, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> wrote:
>
> > The while_each_thread() in vm_is_stack() looks suspicious since the task
> > isn't current and rcu won't protect the iteration, and we also don't hold
> > sighand lock or a readlock on tasklist_lock.
> > I think Oleg will know how to proceed, cc'd.
> I’m attaching a minimal test case that can reproduce the issue. Works in 100% cases on any system I’ve tried.

Thanks. I think David is right and we need the simple patch below.
This reminds me I should kill while_each_thread :/

Any chance you can test it? If not, I will do this later and send
the patch if it helps.

Oleg.

--- x/mm/util.c
+++ x/mm/util.c
@@ -277,17 +277,14 @@ pid_t vm_is_stack(struct task_struct *ta
 
 	if (in_group) {
 		struct task_struct *t;
-		rcu_read_lock();
-		if (!pid_alive(task))
-			goto done;
 
-		t = task;
-		do {
+		rcu_read_lock();
+		for_each_thread(task, t) {
 			if (vm_is_stack_for_task(t, vma)) {
 				ret = t->pid;
 				goto done;
 			}
-		} while_each_thread(task, t);
+		}
 done:
 		rcu_read_unlock();
 	}