On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:57:03 +0100 Catalin Marinas <catalin.mari...@arm.com> wrote:
> Commit 68f24b08ee89 ("sched/core: Free the stack early if > CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK") may cause the task->stack to be freed > during kmemleak_scan() execution, leading to either a NULL pointer > fault (if task->stack is NULL) or kmemleak accessing already freed > memory. This patch uses the new try_get_task_stack() API to ensure that > the task stack is not freed during kmemleak stack scanning. > > Fixes: 68f24b08ee89 ("sched/core: Free the stack early if > CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK") > Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> > Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org> > Cc: CAI Qian <caiq...@redhat.com> > Reported-by: CAI Qian <caiq...@redhat.com> > Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.mari...@arm.com> I'll add Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org> [4.8.x]