From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit 4449a51a7c281602d3a385044ab928322a122a02 upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- mm/util.c | 9 +++------ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c index 96da2d7c076c..de943ec0a4c8 100644 --- a/mm/util.c +++ b/mm/util.c @@ -272,17 +272,14 @@ 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(); } -- 2.1.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html