Kui-Feng Lee 6c27fc1574 bpf: keep a reference to the mm, in case the task is dead. ...

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Fix the system crash that happens when a task iterator travel through
vma of tasks.

In task iterators, we used to access mm by following the pointer on
the task_struct; however, the death of a task will clear the pointer,
even though we still hold the task_struct.  That can cause an
unexpected crash for a null pointer when an iterator is visiting a
task that dies during the visit.  Keeping a reference of mm on the
iterator ensures we always have a valid pointer to mm.

Co-developed-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kui-Feng Lee <kuifeng@meta.com>
Reported-by: Nathan Slingerland <slinger@meta.com>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221216221855.4122288-2-kuifeng@meta.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

2023-01-24 07:24:31 +01:00

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