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[5.11,267/306] include/linux/sched/mm.h: use rcu_dereference in in_vfork()

Message ID 20210315135516.668510601@linuxfoundation.org
State New
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Commit Message

Greg Kroah-Hartman March 15, 2021, 1:55 p.m. UTC 
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

From: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>

[ Upstream commit 149fc787353f65b7e72e05e7b75d34863266c3e2 ]

Fix a sparse warning by using rcu_dereference().  Technically this is a
bug and a sufficiently aggressive compiler could reload the `real_parent'
pointer outside the protection of the rcu lock (and access freed memory),
but I think it's pretty unlikely to happen.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210221194207.1351703-1-willy@infradead.org
Fixes: b18dc5f291c0 ("mm, oom: skip vforked tasks from being selected")
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 include/linux/sched/mm.h | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/include/linux/sched/mm.h b/include/linux/sched/mm.h
index 1ae08b8462a4..90b2a0bce11c 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/mm.h
@@ -140,7 +140,8 @@  static inline bool in_vfork(struct task_struct *tsk)
 	 * another oom-unkillable task does this it should blame itself.
 	 */
 	rcu_read_lock();
-	ret = tsk->vfork_done && tsk->real_parent->mm == tsk->mm;
+	ret = tsk->vfork_done &&
+			rcu_dereference(tsk->real_parent)->mm == tsk->mm;
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	return ret;