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* [PATCH] mm/oom_kill: fix wild pointer in out_of_memory
@ 2021-03-13  4:23 Jiang Biao
  2021-03-15  8:22 ` Michal Hocko
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jiang Biao @ 2021-03-13  4:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm; +Cc: linux-mm, linux-kernel, robinlai, benbjiang

From: Bin Lai <robinlai@tencent.com>

From: Bin Lai <robinlai@tencent.com>

The oc->chosen is used by oom implementation, and the caller does
not initialize this variable. If the tasks of memcg are all unkillable,
oom_evaluate_task cann't choose any task, and the oc->chosen will be
a wild pointer. So we should initialize oc->chosen before calling
oom_evaluate_task.

Signed-off-by: Bin Lai <robinlai@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao <benbjiang@tencent.com>

diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 9efaf43..0658a30 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -366,6 +366,7 @@ static int oom_evaluate_task(struct task_struct *task, void *arg)
 static void select_bad_process(struct oom_control *oc)
 {
 	oc->chosen_points = LONG_MIN;
+	oc->chosen = NULL;
 
 	if (is_memcg_oom(oc))
 		mem_cgroup_scan_tasks(oc->memcg, oom_evaluate_task, oc);
-- 
1.8.3.1


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* Re: [PATCH] mm/oom_kill: fix wild pointer in out_of_memory
  2021-03-13  4:23 [PATCH] mm/oom_kill: fix wild pointer in out_of_memory Jiang Biao
@ 2021-03-15  8:22 ` Michal Hocko
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Michal Hocko @ 2021-03-15  8:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jiang Biao; +Cc: akpm, linux-mm, linux-kernel, robinlai, benbjiang

On Sat 13-03-21 12:23:00, Jiang Biao wrote:
> From: Bin Lai <robinlai@tencent.com>
> 
> From: Bin Lai <robinlai@tencent.com>
> 
> The oc->chosen is used by oom implementation, and the caller does
> not initialize this variable. If the tasks of memcg are all unkillable,
> oom_evaluate_task cann't choose any task, and the oc->chosen will be
> a wild pointer. So we should initialize oc->chosen before calling
> oom_evaluate_task.

All callers do initialize oom_control on the stack and even partial
structure initialization on stack will result in the zeroying of all
other structure's element. So I do not think there is any problem.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Bin Lai <robinlai@tencent.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao <benbjiang@tencent.com>
> 
> diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
> index 9efaf43..0658a30 100644
> --- a/mm/oom_kill.c
> +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
> @@ -366,6 +366,7 @@ static int oom_evaluate_task(struct task_struct *task, void *arg)
>  static void select_bad_process(struct oom_control *oc)
>  {
>  	oc->chosen_points = LONG_MIN;
> +	oc->chosen = NULL;
>  
>  	if (is_memcg_oom(oc))
>  		mem_cgroup_scan_tasks(oc->memcg, oom_evaluate_task, oc);
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
> 

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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