linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm/kmemleak: rely on rcu for task stack scanning

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Date:   Thu, 20 Aug 2020 13:39:02 -0700
From:   Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     catalin.marinas@....com, oleg@...hat.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dave@...olabs.net,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH] mm/kmemleak: rely on rcu for task stack scanning

kmemleak_scan() currently relies on the big tasklist_lock
hammer to stabilize iterating through the tasklist. Instead,
this patch proposes simply using rcu along with the rcu-safe
for_each_process_thread flavor (without changing scan semantics),
which doesn't make use of next_thread/p->thread_group and thus
cannot race with exit. Furthermore, any races with fork()
and not seeing the new child should be benign as it's not
running yet and can also be detected by the next scan.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.de>
---
 mm/kmemleak.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index 5e252d91eb14..c0014d3b91c1 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -1471,15 +1471,15 @@ static void kmemleak_scan(void)
 	if (kmemleak_stack_scan) {
 		struct task_struct *p, *g;

-		read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
-		do_each_thread(g, p) {
+		rcu_read_lock();
+		for_each_process_thread(g, p) {
 			void *stack = try_get_task_stack(p);
 			if (stack) {
 				scan_block(stack, stack + THREAD_SIZE, NULL);
 				put_task_stack(p);
 			}
-		} while_each_thread(g, p);
-		read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+		}
+		rcu_read_unlock();
 	}

 	/*
-- 
2.26.2