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From: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
To: mingo@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org, juri.lelli@redhat.com,
	vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Cc: dietmar.eggemann@arm.com, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	bsegall@google.com, mgorman@suse.de, vschneid@redhat.com,
	kprateek.nayak@amd.com, zhanxusheng1024@gmail.com,
	neelx@suse.com, chjohnst@mail.com, mproche@mail.com,
	sean@ashe.io, steve@abita.co, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 3/5] sched/debug: Protect lockless p->mm access in sched_show_numa()
Date: Sun,  9 Aug 2026 21:58:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260810015812.428999-4-atomlin@atomlin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260810015812.428999-1-atomlin@atomlin.com>

In sched_show_numa(), p->mm is checked locklessly and then passed to the
P(mm->numa_scan_seq) macro. This results in a double-evaluation of p->mm.

If the task exits concurrently via exit_mm(p) between the check and the
macro expansion, p->mm can be set to NULL on another CPU. The second
evaluation then dereferences a NULL pointer.

Fix this TOCTOU race by reading p->mm once into a local variable using
READ_ONCE(p->mm) before checking and dereferencing its numa_scan_seq
field.

Fixes: b32e86b4301e ("sched/numa: Add debugging")
Reported-by: sashiko-bot <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
---
 kernel/sched/debug.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/debug.c b/kernel/sched/debug.c
index c3409166a288..f5494e02f600 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/debug.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/debug.c
@@ -1317,8 +1317,10 @@ void print_numa_stats(struct seq_file *m, int node, unsigned long tsf,
 static void sched_show_numa(struct task_struct *p, struct seq_file *m)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
-	if (p->mm)
-		P(mm->numa_scan_seq);
+	struct mm_struct *mm = READ_ONCE(p->mm);
+
+	if (mm)
+		__PS("mm->numa_scan_seq", mm->numa_scan_seq);
 
 	P(numa_pages_migrated);
 	P(numa_preferred_nid);
-- 
2.55.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-10  1:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-10  1:58 [PATCH v4 0/5] sched/debug: Introduce per-CPU debugfs files Aaron Tomlin
2026-08-10  1:58 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] sched/debug: Protect lockless rq->rd access in print_dl_rq() Aaron Tomlin
2026-08-10  6:50   ` K Prateek Nayak
2026-08-10 13:53   ` Daniel Vacek
2026-08-10  1:58 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] sched/debug: Protect lockless rq->curr access in print_cpu() Aaron Tomlin
2026-08-10  1:58 ` Aaron Tomlin [this message]
2026-08-10  1:58 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] sched/fair: Use list_for_each_entry_rcu() in print_cfs_stats() Aaron Tomlin
2026-08-10  1:58 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] sched/debug: Introduce per-CPU debugfs files Aaron Tomlin

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