tree 66ab8a720acbe92e8d791ad5ae383d9ed6fce1fe
parent 8f161ca1105a6af6614333f13aa7be4aab8b633a
author Kui-Feng Lee <kuifeng@meta.com> 1671229134 -0800
committer Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> 1672265508 -0800

bpf: keep a reference to the mm, in case the task is dead.

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>