sched: Update task_tick_numa to ignore tasks without an mm

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Qian Cai <quic_qiancai@quicinc.com> wrote:
> Reverting the last 3 commits of the series fixed a boot crash.
>
> 1b2552cbdb fork: Stop allowing kthreads to call execve
> 753550eb0c fork: Explicitly set PF_KTHREAD
> 68d85f0a33 init: Deal with the init process being a user mode process
>
>  BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in task_nr_scan_windows.isra.0
>  arch_atomic_long_read at ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-long.h:29
>  (inlined by) atomic_long_read at ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:1266
>  (inlined by) get_mm_counter at ./include/linux/mm.h:1996
>  (inlined by) get_mm_rss at ./include/linux/mm.h:2049
>  (inlined by) task_nr_scan_windows at kernel/sched/fair.c:1123
>  Read of size 8 at addr 00000000000003d0 by task swapper/0/1

With the change to init and the user mode helper processes to not have
PF_KTHREAD set before they call kernel_execve the PF_KTHREAD test in
task_tick_numa became insufficient to detect all tasks that have
"->mm == NULL".  Correct that by testing for "->mm == NULL" directly.

Reported-by: Qian Cai <quic_qiancai@quicinc.com>
Tested-by: Qian Cai <quic_qiancai@quicinc.com>
Fixes: 1b2552cbdb ("fork: Stop allowing kthreads to call execve")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87r150ug1l.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

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Eric W. Biederman 2022-05-11 12:16:21 -05:00

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