linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] exit: fix oops in sync_mm

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Date:	Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:57:18 +0900
From:	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, cl@...ux-foundation.org,
	lee.schermerhorn@...com, rientjes@...gle.com,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Troels Liebe Bentsen <tlb@...anden.dk>,
	linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] exit: fix oops in sync_mm_rss

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 9:41 AM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
<kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:37:21 -0400
> Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:28:15 +0900 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:56:34 -0700
>> > Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > > That new BUG_ON() is triggering in Troels's machine when a bluetooth
>> > > keyboard is enabled or disabled.  See
>> > > (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15648.
>> > >
>> > > I guess the question is: how did a kernel thread get a non-zero
>> > > task->rss_stat.count[i]?  If that's expected and OK then we will need
>> > > to take some kernel-thread-avoidance action there.
>> > >
>> > It seems my fault that it's not initialized to be 0 at do_fork(), copy_process.
>> >
>> > About do_exit, do_exit() does this check. So, tsk->mm can be NULL.
>> >
>> >  949         if (group_dead) {
>> >  950                 hrtimer_cancel(&tsk->signal->real_timer);
>> >  951                 exit_itimers(tsk->signal);
>> >  952                 if (tsk->mm)
>> >  953                         setmax_mm_hiwater_rss(&tsk->signal->maxrss, tsk->mm);
>> >  954         }
>> >
>> > > Could whoever fixes this please also make __sync_task_rss_stat()
>> > > static.
>> > >
>> > Ah, yes. I should do so.
>> >
>> > > I'll toss this over to Rafael/Maciej for tracking as a post-2.6.33
>> > > regression.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks.
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>> > ==
>> >
>> > task->rss_stat wasn't initialized to 0 at copy_process().
>> > at exit, tsk->mm may be NULL.
>> > And __sync_task_rss_stat() should be static.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
>> > ---
>> >  kernel/exit.c |    3 ++-
>> >  kernel/fork.c |    3 +++
>> >  mm/memory.c   |    2 +-
>> >  3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > Index: mmotm-2.6.34-Mar24/kernel/exit.c
>> > ===================================================================
>> > --- mmotm-2.6.34-Mar24.orig/kernel/exit.c
>> > +++ mmotm-2.6.34-Mar24/kernel/exit.c
>> > @@ -950,7 +950,8 @@ 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);
>> > Index: mmotm-2.6.34-Mar24/mm/memory.c
>> > ===================================================================
>> > --- mmotm-2.6.34-Mar24.orig/mm/memory.c
>> > +++ mmotm-2.6.34-Mar24/mm/memory.c
>> > @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ core_initcall(init_zero_pfn);
>> >
>> >  #if defined(SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING)
>> >
>> > -void __sync_task_rss_stat(struct task_struct *task, struct mm_struct *mm)
>> > +static void __sync_task_rss_stat(struct task_struct *task, struct mm_struct *mm)
>> >  {
>> >     int i;
>> >
>> > Index: mmotm-2.6.34-Mar24/kernel/fork.c
>> > ===================================================================
>> > --- mmotm-2.6.34-Mar24.orig/kernel/fork.c
>> > +++ mmotm-2.6.34-Mar24/kernel/fork.c
>> > @@ -1060,6 +1060,9 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(
>> >     p->prev_utime = cputime_zero;
>> >     p->prev_stime = cputime_zero;
>> >  #endif
>> > +#if defined(SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING)
>> > +   memset(&p->rss_stat, 0, sizeof(p->rss_stat));
>> > +#endif
>> >
>> >     p->default_timer_slack_ns = current->timer_slack_ns;
>>
>> OK, so the kenrel thread inherited a non-zero rss_stat from a userspace
>> parent?
>>
> I think so.
>
>> With this fixed, the test for non-zero tsk->mm is't really needed in
>> do_exit(), is it?  I guess it makes sense though - sync_mm_rss() only
>> really works for kernel threads by luck..
>
> At first, I considered so, too. But I changed my mind to show
> "we know tsk->mm can be NULL here!" by code.
> Because __sync_mm_rss_stat() has BUG_ON(!mm), the code reader will think
> tsk->mm shouldn't be NULL always.
>
> Doesn't make sense ?
>

Nitpick.
How about moving sync_mm_rss into after check !mm of exit_mm?



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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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