From 4449a51a7c281602d3a385044ab928322a122a02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 14:19:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] vm_is_stack: use for_each_thread() rather then buggy
while_each_thread()
Aleksei hit the soft lockup during reading /proc/PID/smaps. David
investigated the problem and suggested the right fix.
while_each_thread() is racy and should die, this patch updates
vm_is_stack().
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Aleksei Besogonov <alex.besogonov@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Aleksei Besogonov <alex.besogonov@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/util.c | 9 +++------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 7b6608df2ee80..093c973f1697d 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -183,17 +183,14 @@ pid_t vm_is_stack(struct task_struct *task,
if (in_group) {
struct task_struct *t;
- rcu_read_lock();
- if (!pid_alive(task))
- goto done;
- t = task;
- do {
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ for_each_thread(task, t) {
if (vm_is_stack_for_task(t, vma)) {
ret = t->pid;
goto done;
}
- } while_each_thread(task, t);
+ }
done:
rcu_read_unlock();
}
--
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