linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: kmemleak: Ensure that the task stack is not freed during scanning

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Date:   Wed, 19 Oct 2016 11:33:27 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        CAI Qian <caiqian@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: kmemleak: Ensure that the task stack is not freed
 during scanning

On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:57:03 +0100 Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com> wrote:

> Commit 68f24b08ee89 ("sched/core: Free the stack early if
> CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK") may cause the task->stack to be freed
> during kmemleak_scan() execution, leading to either a NULL pointer
> fault (if task->stack is NULL) or kmemleak accessing already freed
> memory. This patch uses the new try_get_task_stack() API to ensure that
> the task stack is not freed during kmemleak stack scanning.
> 
> Fixes: 68f24b08ee89 ("sched/core: Free the stack early if CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK")
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
> Cc: CAI Qian <caiqian@...hat.com>
> Reported-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>

I'll add

Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>    [4.8.x]