The patch titled
Subject: fork, memcg: fix cached_stacks case
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
fork-memcg-fix-cached_stacks-case.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/fork-memcg-fix-cached_stacks-case.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/fork-memcg-fix-cached_stacks-case.patch
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From: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: fork, memcg: fix cached_stacks case
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.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190102180145.57406-1-shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 5eed6f1dff87 ("fork,memcg: fix crash in free_thread_stack on memcg charge fail")
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/fork.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/kernel/fork.c~fork-memcg-fix-cached_stacks-case
+++ a/kernel/fork.c
@@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ static unsigned long *alloc_thread_stack
memset(s->addr, 0, THREAD_SIZE);
tsk->stack_vm_area = s;
+ tsk->stack = s->addr;
return s->addr;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx are
fork-memcg-fix-cached_stacks-case.patch
