Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > linux.kernel > #1430694

Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core)

From Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core)
Date 2016-06-24 16:20 +0200
Message-ID <rNA7D-Hi-11@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References (4 earlier) <rNdXs-2Tn-35@gated-at.bofh.it> <rNfPz-4cB-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <rNgiC-4ER-19@gated-at.bofh.it> <rNgVj-4UA-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <rNi14-5I7-25@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization linux.* mail to news gateway

Show all headers | View raw

On Thu 23-06-16 20:52:21, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 06/23, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Let me quote my previous email ;)
> > >
> > >         And we can't free/nullify it when the parent/debuger reaps a zombie,
> > >         say, mark_oom_victim() expects that get_task_struct() protects
> > >         thread_info as well.
> > >
> > > probably we can fix all such users though...
> >
> > TIF_MEMDIE is indeed a potential problem, but I don't think
> > mark_oom_victim() is actually problematic.
> >
> > mark_oom_victim() is called with either "current",
> 
> This is no longer true in -mm tree.
> 
> But I agree, this is fixable (and in fact I still hope TIF_MEMDIE will die,
> at least in its current form).

We can move the flag to the task_struct. There are still some bits left
there. This would be trivial so that the oom usage doesn't stay in the
way.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

Back to linux.kernel | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-06-23 19:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-06-23 20:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core) Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-06-23 20:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86,  core) Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-06-23 21:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86,  core) Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2016-06-23 20:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86,  core) Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-06-23 21:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-06-23 20:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core) Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-23 21:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86,  core) Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-06-23 21:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-06-23 21:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-06-24 08:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core) Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> - 2016-06-24 14:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-06-24 19:30 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-06-24 19:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core) Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-24 19:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-06-24 20:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core) Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-24 20:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-06-24 20:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-06-24 20:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core) Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-24 23:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86,  core) Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2016-06-24 23:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-06-24 23:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core) Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-24 23:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-06-24 23:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core) Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-24 23:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-06-25 04:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core) Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-26 01:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core) Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-26 01:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-06-26 03:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86,  core) Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2016-06-24 23:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86, core) Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-23 21:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86,  core) Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-06-23 21:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86,  core) Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2016-06-23 21:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86,  core) Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-06-24 16:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86,  core) Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-06-24 17:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages  (x86, core) Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2016-06-24 22:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v3 00/13] Virtually mapped stacks with guard pages (x86,  core) Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-06-27 12:40 +0200

csiph-web