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    mm, oom_reaper: fix memory corruption · 4837fe37
    Michal Hocko authored
    David Rientjes has reported the following memory corruption while the
    oom reaper tries to unmap the victims address space
    
      BUG: Bad page map in process oom_reaper  pte:6353826300000000 pmd:00000000
      addr:00007f50cab1d000 vm_flags:08100073 anon_vma:ffff9eea335603f0 mapping:          (null) index:7f50cab1d
      file:          (null) fault:          (null) mmap:          (null) readpage:          (null)
      CPU: 2 PID: 1001 Comm: oom_reaper
      Call Trace:
         unmap_page_range+0x1068/0x1130
         __oom_reap_task_mm+0xd5/0x16b
         oom_reaper+0xff/0x14c
         kthread+0xc1/0xe0
    
    Tetsuo Handa has noticed that the synchronization inside exit_mmap is
    insufficient.  We only synchronize with the oom reaper if
    tsk_is_oom_victim which is not true if the final __mmput is called from
    a different context than the oom victim exit path.  This can trivially
    happen from context of any task which has grabbed mm reference (e.g.  to
    read /proc/<pid>/ file which requires mm etc.).
    
    The race would look like this
    
      oom_reaper		oom_victim		task
    						mmget_not_zero
    			do_exit
    			  mmput
      __oom_reap_task_mm				mmput
      						  __mmput
    						    exit_mmap
    						      remove_vma
        unmap_page_range
    
    Fix this issue by providing a new mm_is_oom_victim() helper which
    operates on the mm struct rather than a task.  Any context which
    operates on a remote mm struct should use this helper in place of
    tsk_is_oom_victim.  The flag is set in mark_oom_victim and never cleared
    so it is stable in the exit_mmap path.
    
    Debugged by Tetsuo Handa.
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171210095130.17110-1-mhocko@kernel.org
    Fixes: 21292580
    
     ("mm: oom: let oom_reap_task and exit_mmap run concurrently")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
    Reported-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
    Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
    Cc: Andrea Argangeli <andrea@kernel.org>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[4.14]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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