4.19-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jinliang Zheng <alexjlzheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit cf3f9a593dab87a032d2b6a6fb205e7f3de4f0a1 upstream. When mm_update_owner_next() is racing with swapoff (try_to_unuse()) or /proc or ptrace or page migration (get_task_mm()), it is impossible to find an appropriate task_struct in the loop whose mm_struct is the same as the target mm_struct. If the above race condition is combined with the stress-ng-zombie and stress-ng-dup tests, such a long loop can easily cause a Hard Lockup in write_lock_irq() for tasklist_lock. Recognize this situation in advance and exit early. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240620122123.3877432-1-alexjlzheng@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jinliang Zheng <alexjlzheng@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tycho Andersen <tandersen@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/exit.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -494,6 +494,8 @@ retry: * Search through everything else, we should not get here often. */ for_each_process(g) { + if (atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) <= 1) + break; if (g->flags & PF_KTHREAD) continue; for_each_thread(g, c) {
