"Search through everything else" in mm_update_next_owner() can hit a kthread which adopted this "mm" via use_mm(), it should not be used as mm->owner. Add the PF_KTHREAD check.
While at it, change this code to use for_each_process_thread() instead of deprecated do_each_thread/while_each_thread. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.cz> --- kernel/exit.c | 10 ++++------ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index ad7183a..e270d2a 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -356,14 +356,12 @@ retry: } /* - * Search through everything else. We should not get - * here often + * Search through everything else, we should not get here often. */ - do_each_thread(g, c) { - if (c->mm == mm) + for_each_process_thread(g, c) { + if (!(c->flags & PF_KTHREAD) && c->mm == mm) goto assign_new_owner; - } while_each_thread(g, c); - + } read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); /* * We found no owner yet mm_users > 1: this implies that we are -- 1.5.5.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/