linux-kernel - Re: kthread_stop insanity (Re: [[DEBUG] force] 2642458962: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90000997f18)

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Date:	Wed, 29 Jun 2016 16:33:26 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, LKP <lkp@...org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel test robot <xiaolong.ye@...el.com>
Subject: Re: kthread_stop insanity (Re: [[DEBUG] force] 2642458962: BUG:
 unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90000997f18)

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:
> On 06/27, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>>
>> On 06/27, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> >
>> > Want to send a patch?  I could do it, but you understand this code
>> > much better than I do.
>>
>> Well, I'll try to do this tomorrow unless you do it.
>
> I have cloned luto/linux.git to see if kthread_stop() can pin ->stack
> somehow, but it seems this is not possible, finish_task_switch() does
> free_thread_stack() unconditionally.
>
> Then how (say) proc_pid_stack() can work? If it hits the task which is
> alreay dead we are (probably) fine, valid_stack_ptr() should fail iiuc.
>

I changed save_stack_trace_tsk() to use try_get_task_stack().  I think
that's sufficient to fix this.

--Andy