linux-kernel - [PATCH] xacct_add_tsk: fix pure theoretical ->mm use-after-free

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Date:	Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:58:26 +0300
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Shailabh Nagar <nagar@...son.ibm.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ibm.com>, Jay Lan <jlan@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] xacct_add_tsk: fix pure theoretical ->mm use-after-free

Paranoid fix. The task can free its ->mm after the 'if (p->mm)' check.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>

--- STATS/kernel/tsacct.c~3_mm	2006-10-27 01:03:26.000000000 +0400
+++ STATS/kernel/tsacct.c	2006-10-29 21:46:12.000000000 +0300
@@ -80,13 +80,17 @@ void bacct_add_tsk(struct taskstats *sta
  */
 void xacct_add_tsk(struct taskstats *stats, struct task_struct *p)
 {
+	struct mm_struct *mm;
+
 	/* convert pages-jiffies to Mbyte-usec */
 	stats->coremem = jiffies_to_usecs(p->acct_rss_mem1) * PAGE_SIZE / MB;
 	stats->virtmem = jiffies_to_usecs(p->acct_vm_mem1) * PAGE_SIZE / MB;
-	if (p->mm) {
+	mm = get_task_mm(p);
+	if (mm) {
 		/* adjust to KB unit */
-		stats->hiwater_rss   = p->mm->hiwater_rss * PAGE_SIZE / KB;
-		stats->hiwater_vm    = p->mm->hiwater_vm * PAGE_SIZE / KB;
+		stats->hiwater_rss   = mm->hiwater_rss * PAGE_SIZE / KB;
+		stats->hiwater_vm    = mm->hiwater_vm * PAGE_SIZE / KB;
+		mmput(mm);
 	}
 	stats->read_char	= p->rchar;
 	stats->write_char	= p->wchar;

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