The patch below does not apply to the 3.10-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From 4449a51a7c281602d3a385044ab928322a122a02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 14:19:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] vm_is_stack: use for_each_thread() rather then buggy
while_each_thread()
Aleksei hit the soft lockup during reading /proc/PID/smaps. David
investigated the problem and suggested the right fix.
while_each_thread() is racy and should die, this patch updates
vm_is_stack().
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Aleksei Besogonov <alex.besogonov@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Aleksei Besogonov <alex.besogonov@xxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 7b6608df2ee8..093c973f1697 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -183,17 +183,14 @@ pid_t vm_is_stack(struct task_struct *task,
if (in_group) {
struct task_struct *t;
- rcu_read_lock();
- if (!pid_alive(task))
- goto done;
- t = task;
- do {
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ for_each_thread(task, t) {
if (vm_is_stack_for_task(t, vma)) {
ret = t->pid;
goto done;
}
- } while_each_thread(task, t);
+ }
done:
rcu_read_unlock();
}
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