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Shakeel Butt 54adc36a43 mm, oom: fix use-after-free in oom_kill_process 
commit cefc7ef3c8 upstream.

Syzbot instance running on upstream kernel found a use-after-free bug in
oom_kill_process.  On further inspection it seems like the process
selected to be oom-killed has exited even before reaching
read_lock(&tasklist_lock) in oom_kill_process().  More specifically the
tsk->usage is 1 which is due to get_task_struct() in oom_evaluate_task()
and the put_task_struct within for_each_thread() frees the tsk and
for_each_thread() tries to access the tsk.  The easiest fix is to do
get/put across the for_each_thread() on the selected task.

Now the next question is should we continue with the oom-kill as the
previously selected task has exited? However before adding more
complexity and heuristics, let's answer why we even look at the children
of oom-kill selected task? The select_bad_process() has already selected
the worst process in the system/memcg.  Due to race, the selected
process might not be the worst at the kill time but does that matter?
The userspace can use the oom_score_adj interface to prefer children to
be killed before the parent.  I looked at the history but it seems like
this is there before git history.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190121215850.221745-1-shakeelb@google.com
Reported-by: syzbot+7fbbfa368521945f0e3d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 6b0c81b3be ("mm, oom: reduce dependency on tasklist_lock")
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2019-02-06 17:27:44 +01:00
arch arm64: hibernate: Clean the __hyp_text to PoC after resume 2019-02-06 17:27:41 +01:00
block block: use rcu_work instead of call_rcu to avoid sleep in softirq 2019-01-22 21:09:57 +01:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: ecc - regularize scalar for scalar multiplication 2019-01-26 09:20:41 +01:00
Documentation mm, proc: be more verbose about unstable VMA flags in /proc/<pid>/smaps 2019-01-26 09:20:51 +01:00
drivers platform/x86: asus-nb-wmi: Drop mapping of 0x33 and 0x34 scan codes 2019-02-06 17:27:43 +01:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs btrfs: On error always free subvol_name in btrfs_mount 2019-02-06 17:27:43 +01:00
include oom, oom_reaper: do not enqueue same task twice 2019-02-06 17:27:44 +01:00
init kbuild: Disable LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION with ftrace & GCC <= 4.7 2019-01-22 21:09:54 +01:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
kernel kernel/exit.c: release ptraced tasks before zap_pid_ns_processes 2019-02-06 17:27:43 +01:00
lib fix int_sqrt64() for very large numbers 2019-01-22 21:09:55 +01:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
mm mm, oom: fix use-after-free in oom_kill_process 2019-02-06 17:27:44 +01:00
net ipv6: Consider sk_bound_dev_if when binding a socket to an address 2019-02-06 17:27:39 +01:00
samples samples: bpf: fix: error handling regarding kprobe_events 2019-01-26 09:20:42 +01:00
scripts kconfig: fix memory leak when EOF is encountered in quotation 2019-01-26 09:20:46 +01:00
security selinux: always allow mounting submounts 2019-01-26 09:20:42 +01:00
sound ALSA: pcm: Fix tight loop of OSS capture stream 2019-02-06 17:27:42 +01:00
tools selftests/seccomp: Enhance per-arch ptrace syscall skip tests 2019-02-06 17:27:40 +01:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Fix off-by-one bug in vgic_get_irq() 2019-01-09 17:46:04 +01:00
.clang-format page cache: Convert find_get_pages_contig to XArray 2018-10-21 10:46:34 -04:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap mailmap: Update email for Punit Agrawal 2018-11-05 10:02:11 +00:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update entry for MMP platform 2018-12-03 12:39:57 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-12-21 14:21:17 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.20.6 2019-01-31 08:15:47 +01:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.