If a task exits before procfs is mounted, proc_flush_task_mnt will be called with a NULL mnt parameter. In that case, not only is there nothing to unhash, but trying to do so will oops the kernel with a null pointer dereference.
Signed-off-by: Gargi Sharma <gs051...@gmail.com> --- fs/proc/base.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c index e5d89a0..7b83c21 100644 --- a/fs/proc/base.c +++ b/fs/proc/base.c @@ -3021,6 +3021,10 @@ static void proc_flush_task_mnt(struct vfsmount *mnt, pid_t pid, pid_t tgid) char buf[PROC_NUMBUF]; struct qstr name; + /* procfs is not mounted. There is nothing to unhash. */ + if (!mnt) + return; + name.name = buf; name.len = snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%d", pid); /* no ->d_hash() rejects on procfs */ -- 2.7.4