From: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>,
Jirka Hladky <jhladky@redhat.com>,
Srikanth Aithal <Srikanth.Aithal@amd.com>,
Suneeth D <Suneeth.D@amd.com>, Libo Chen <libo.chen@oracle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] sched/numa: Fix NULL pointer access to mm_struct durng task swap
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2025 00:32:47 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250702163247.324439-1-yu.c.chen@intel.com> (raw)
It was reported that after Commit ad6b26b6a0a7
("sched/numa: add statistics of numa balance task"),
a NULL pointer exception[1] occurs when accessing
p->mm. The following race condition was found to
trigger this bug: After a swap task candidate is
chosen during NUMA balancing, its mm_struct is
released due to task exit. Later, when the task
swapping is performed, p->mm is NULL, which causes
the problem:
CPU0 CPU1
:
...
task_numa_migrate
task_numa_find_cpu
task_numa_compare
# a normal task p is chosen
env->best_task = p
# p exit:
exit_signals(p);
p->flags |= PF_EXITING
exit_mm
p->mm = NULL;
migrate_swap_stop
__migrate_swap_task((arg->src_task, arg->dst_cpu)
count_memcg_event_mm(p->mm, NUMA_TASK_SWAP)# p->mm is NULL
Fix this issue by checking if the task has the PF_EXITING
flag set in migrate_swap_stop(). If it does, skip updating
the memcg events. Additionally, log a warning if p->mm is
NULL to facilitate future debugging.
Fixes: ad6b26b6a0a7 ("sched/numa: add statistics of numa balance task")
Reported-by: Jirka Hladky <jhladky@redhat.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAE4VaGBLJxpd=NeRJXpSCuw=REhC5LWJpC29kDy-Zh2ZDyzQZA@mail.gmail.com/
Reported-by: Srikanth Aithal <Srikanth.Aithal@amd.com>
Reported-by: Suneeth D <Suneeth.D@amd.com>
Suggested-by: Libo Chen <libo.chen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 8988d38d46a3..4e06bb955dad 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -3364,7 +3364,14 @@ static void __migrate_swap_task(struct task_struct *p, int cpu)
{
__schedstat_inc(p->stats.numa_task_swapped);
count_vm_numa_event(NUMA_TASK_SWAP);
- count_memcg_event_mm(p->mm, NUMA_TASK_SWAP);
+ /* exiting task has NULL mm */
+ if (!(p->flags & PF_EXITING)) {
+ WARN_ONCE(!p->mm, "swap task %d %s %x has no mm\n",
+ p->pid, p->comm, p->flags);
+
+ if (p->mm)
+ count_memcg_event_mm(p->mm, NUMA_TASK_SWAP);
+ }
if (task_on_rq_queued(p)) {
struct rq *src_rq, *dst_rq;
--
2.25.1
next reply other threads:[~2025-07-02 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-02 16:32 Chen Yu [this message]
2025-07-02 21:08 ` [PATCH] sched/numa: Fix NULL pointer access to mm_struct durng task swap Andrew Morton
2025-07-03 9:24 ` Chen, Yu C
2025-07-03 7:18 ` Michal Hocko
2025-07-03 9:37 ` Chen, Yu C
2025-07-03 11:51 ` Michal Hocko
2025-07-03 11:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2025-07-03 7:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2025-07-03 9:28 ` Michal Hocko
2025-07-03 11:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2025-07-03 12:01 ` Michal Hocko
2025-07-03 12:04 ` Chen, Yu C
2025-07-03 12:20 ` Libo Chen
2025-07-03 12:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2025-07-03 13:38 ` Chen, Yu C
2025-07-03 14:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2025-07-04 5:57 ` Chen, Yu C
2025-07-03 13:57 ` Libo Chen
2025-07-03 14:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2025-07-03 23:35 ` Libo Chen
2025-07-04 8:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
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