On Wed 02-01-19 10:01:45, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> Commit 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.
>
> 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>
Ups, I have overlook that. Thanks for catching that.
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/fork.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> index e4a51124661a..593cd1577dff 100644
> --- a/kernel/fork.c
> +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> @@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ static unsigned long *alloc_thread_stack_node(struct task_struct *tsk, int node)
> memset(s->addr, 0, THREAD_SIZE);
>
> tsk->stack_vm_area = s;
> + tsk->stack = s->addr;
> return s->addr;
> }
>
> --
> 2.20.1.415.g653613c723-goog
>
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
