hold task->mempolicy while numa_maps scans.
authorKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:00:55 +0000 (17:00 +0900)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:32:10 +0000 (14:32 -0700)
commit9e7814404b77c3e8920bee4277162bf3a7460505
treef7542b049f29150680507dd211925401beadac9a
parent3b641bf453497d76ea28c5fc1c666f424ead6dcf
hold task->mempolicy while numa_maps scans.

  /proc/<pid>/numa_maps scans vma and show mempolicy under
  mmap_sem. It sometimes accesses task->mempolicy which can
  be freed without mmap_sem and numa_maps can show some
  garbage while scanning.

This patch tries to take reference count of task->mempolicy at reading
numa_maps before calling get_vma_policy(). By this, task->mempolicy
will not be freed until numa_maps reaches its end.

V2->v3
  -  updated comments to be more verbose.
  -  removed task_lock() in numa_maps code.
V1->V2
  -  access task->mempolicy only once and remember it.  Becase kernel/exit.c
     can overwrite it.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/proc/internal.h
fs/proc/task_mmu.c