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authorKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>2010-04-06 14:34:42 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-04-07 08:38:02 -0700
commita3a2e76c77fa22b114e421ac11dec0c56c3503fb (patch)
treecc67bbd8d5d364e55ea7a00d0b5ad68d5eac08ac /kernel/exit.c
parentb01d0942c2b7a3026d2b7d38b5773d3d00420e06 (diff)
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mm: avoid null-pointer deref in sync_mm_rss()
- We weren't zeroing p->rss_stat[] at fork() - Consequently sync_mm_rss() was dereferencing tsk->mm for kernel threads and was oopsing. - Make __sync_task_rss_stat() static, too. Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15648 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove the BUG_ON(!mm->rss)] Reported-by: Troels Liebe Bentsen <tlb@rapanden.dk> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/exit.c')
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index cce59cb..7f2683a 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -953,7 +953,8 @@ NORET_TYPE void do_exit(long code)
acct_update_integrals(tsk);
/* sync mm's RSS info before statistics gathering */
- sync_mm_rss(tsk, tsk->mm);
+ if (tsk->mm)
+ sync_mm_rss(tsk, tsk->mm);
group_dead = atomic_dec_and_test(&tsk->signal->live);
if (group_dead) {
hrtimer_cancel(&tsk->signal->real_timer);
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