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authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>2011-10-31 17:07:18 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-10-31 17:30:45 -0700
commit43362a4977e37db46f86f7e6ab935f0006956632 (patch)
tree5ab7070237ebd3f40d7fcfc0066586422da8310a
parentc9f01245b6a7d77d17deaa71af10f6aca14fa24e (diff)
oom: fix race while temporarily setting current's oom_score_adj
test_set_oom_score_adj() was introduced in 72788c385604 ("oom: replace PF_OOM_ORIGIN with toggling oom_score_adj") to temporarily elevate current's oom_score_adj for ksm and swapoff without requiring an additional per-process flag. Using that function to both set oom_score_adj to OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX and then reinstate the previous value is racy since it's possible that userspace can set the value to something else itself before the old value is reinstated. That results in userspace setting current's oom_score_adj to a different value and then the kernel immediately setting it back to its previous value without notification. To fix this, a new compare_swap_oom_score_adj() function is introduced with the same semantics as the compare and swap CAS instruction, or CMPXCHG on x86. It is used to reinstate the previous value of oom_score_adj if and only if the present value is the same as the old value. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/oom.h1
-rw-r--r--mm/ksm.c3
-rw-r--r--mm/oom_kill.c19
-rw-r--r--mm/swapfile.c2
4 files changed, 23 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/oom.h b/include/linux/oom.h
index 13b7b02e599..6f9d04a8533 100644
--- a/include/linux/oom.h
+++ b/include/linux/oom.h
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ enum oom_constraint {
CONSTRAINT_MEMCG,
};
+extern void compare_swap_oom_score_adj(int old_val, int new_val);
extern int test_set_oom_score_adj(int new_val);
extern unsigned int oom_badness(struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *mem,
diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index 9a68b0cf0a1..310544a379a 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -1905,7 +1905,8 @@ static ssize_t run_store(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr,
oom_score_adj = test_set_oom_score_adj(OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX);
err = unmerge_and_remove_all_rmap_items();
- test_set_oom_score_adj(oom_score_adj);
+ compare_swap_oom_score_adj(OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX,
+ oom_score_adj);
if (err) {
ksm_run = KSM_RUN_STOP;
count = err;
diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
index 2b97e8f0460..e916168b6e0 100644
--- a/mm/oom_kill.c
+++ b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -39,6 +39,25 @@ int sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task;
int sysctl_oom_dump_tasks = 1;
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(zone_scan_lock);
+/*
+ * compare_swap_oom_score_adj() - compare and swap current's oom_score_adj
+ * @old_val: old oom_score_adj for compare
+ * @new_val: new oom_score_adj for swap
+ *
+ * Sets the oom_score_adj value for current to @new_val iff its present value is
+ * @old_val. Usually used to reinstate a previous value to prevent racing with
+ * userspacing tuning the value in the interim.
+ */
+void compare_swap_oom_score_adj(int old_val, int new_val)
+{
+ struct sighand_struct *sighand = current->sighand;
+
+ spin_lock_irq(&sighand->siglock);
+ if (current->signal->oom_score_adj == old_val)
+ current->signal->oom_score_adj = new_val;
+ spin_unlock_irq(&sighand->siglock);
+}
+
/**
* test_set_oom_score_adj() - set current's oom_score_adj and return old value
* @new_val: new oom_score_adj value
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 17bc224bce6..c9d65400912 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -1617,7 +1617,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(swapoff, const char __user *, specialfile)
oom_score_adj = test_set_oom_score_adj(OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX);
err = try_to_unuse(type);
- test_set_oom_score_adj(oom_score_adj);
+ compare_swap_oom_score_adj(OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MAX, oom_score_adj);
if (err) {
/*