linux-kernel - [PATCH] fork, memcg: fix cached

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Message-Id: <20190102180145.57406-1-shakeelb@google.com>
Date:   Wed,  2 Jan 2019 10:01:45 -0800
From:   Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
To:     Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>, Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] fork, memcg: fix cached_stacks case

Commit 5eed6f1dff87 ("fork,memcg: fix crash in free_thread_stack on
memcg charge fail") fixes a crash caused due to failed memcg charge of
the kernel stack. However the fix misses the cached_stacks case which
this patch fixes. So, the same crash can happen if the memcg charge of
a cached stack is failed.

Fixes: 5eed6f1dff87 ("fork,memcg: fix crash in free_thread_stack on memcg charge fail")
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
---
 kernel/fork.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index e4a51124661a..593cd1577dff 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ static unsigned long *alloc_thread_stack_node(struct task_struct *tsk, int node)
 		memset(s->addr, 0, THREAD_SIZE);
 
 		tsk->stack_vm_area = s;
+		tsk->stack = s->addr;
 		return s->addr;
 	}
 
-- 
2.20.1.415.g653613c723-goog