5.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Jinliang Zheng alexjlzheng@tencent.com
commit cf3f9a593dab87a032d2b6a6fb205e7f3de4f0a1 upstream.
When mm_update_owner_next() is racing with swapoff (try_to_unuse()) or /proc or ptrace or page migration (get_task_mm()), it is impossible to find an appropriate task_struct in the loop whose mm_struct is the same as the target mm_struct.
If the above race condition is combined with the stress-ng-zombie and stress-ng-dup tests, such a long loop can easily cause a Hard Lockup in write_lock_irq() for tasklist_lock.
Recognize this situation in advance and exit early.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240620122123.3877432-1-alexjlzheng@tencent.com Signed-off-by: Jinliang Zheng alexjlzheng@tencent.com Acked-by: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Cc: Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org Cc: Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk Cc: Mateusz Guzik mjguzik@gmail.com Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) willy@infradead.org Cc: Oleg Nesterov oleg@redhat.com Cc: Tycho Andersen tandersen@netflix.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- kernel/exit.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -433,6 +433,8 @@ retry: * Search through everything else, we should not get here often. */ for_each_process(g) { + if (atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) <= 1) + break; if (g->flags & PF_KTHREAD) continue; for_each_thread(g, c) {