----- Original Message -----
> From: "Catalin Marinas" <catalin.mari...@arm.com>
> To: linux...@kvack.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Andrew Morton"
> <a...@linux-foundation.org>, "Andy Lutomirski" <l...@kernel.org>,
> "CAI Qian" <caiq...@redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 5:57:03 AM
> Subject: [PATCH] mm: kmemleak: Ensure that the task stack is not freed during
> scanning
>
> Commit 68f24b08ee89 ("sched/core: Free the stack early if
> CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK") may cause the task->stack to be freed
> during kmemleak_scan() execution, leading to either a NULL pointer
> fault (if task->stack is NULL) or kmemleak accessing already freed
> memory. This patch uses the new try_get_task_stack() API to ensure that
> the task stack is not freed during kmemleak stack scanning.
>
> Fixes: 68f24b08ee89 ("sched/core: Free the stack early if
> CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK")
> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org>
> Cc: CAI Qian <caiq...@redhat.com>
> Reported-by: CAI Qian <caiq...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.mari...@arm.com>
Tested-by: CAI Qian <caiq...@redhat.com>
> ---
>
> This was reported in a subsequent comment here:
>
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173901
>
> However, the original bugzilla entry doesn't look related to task stack
> freeing as it was first reported on 4.8-rc8. Andy, sorry for cc'ing you
> to bugzilla, please feel free to remove your email from the bug above (I
> can't seem to be able to do it).
>
> mm/kmemleak.c | 7 +++++--
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
> index a5e453cf05c4..e5355a5b423f 100644
> --- a/mm/kmemleak.c
> +++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
> @@ -1453,8 +1453,11 @@ static void kmemleak_scan(void)
>
> read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
> do_each_thread(g, p) {
> - scan_block(task_stack_page(p), task_stack_page(p) +
> - THREAD_SIZE, NULL);
> + void *stack = try_get_task_stack(p);
> + if (stack) {
> + scan_block(stack, stack + THREAD_SIZE, NULL);
> + put_task_stack(p);
> + }
> } while_each_thread(g, p);
> read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
> }
>
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