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Re: kthread_stop insanity (Re: [[DEBUG] force] 2642458962: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90000997f18)

From Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: kthread_stop insanity (Re: [[DEBUG] force] 2642458962: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90000997f18)
Date 2016-06-27 19:20 +0200
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On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 10:22 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> kthread_stop is *sick*.
>
>     struct kthread self;
>
>
>     current->vfork_done = &self.exited;
>
>
>     do_exit(ret);
>
> And then some other thread goes and waits for the completion, which is
> *on the stack*, which, in any sane world (e.g. with my series
> applied), is long gone by then.

Yeah. To be fair, that used to work. And the waiter does actually get
a reference to the task struct, and with the lifetime of the stack
historically being the same as the task struct, it was even being
fairly careful about it.

But yes, it's disgusting, and doesn't work in the new world order, and
I think it should be fairly easy to fix. Although getting the lifetime
right for a separately allocated "struct kthread_struct" might be a
bit exciting.

                 Linus

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kthread_stop insanity (Re: [[DEBUG] force] 2642458962: BUG: unable to  handle kernel paging request at ffffc90000997f18) Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-06-27 07:30 +0200
  Re: kthread_stop insanity (Re: [[DEBUG] force] 2642458962: BUG:  unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90000997f18) Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2016-06-27 10:30 +0200
  Re: kthread_stop insanity (Re: [[DEBUG] force] 2642458962: BUG:  unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90000997f18) Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2016-06-27 17:00 +0200
    Re: kthread_stop insanity (Re: [[DEBUG] force] 2642458962: BUG:  unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90000997f18) Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-27 17:50 +0200
      Re: kthread_stop insanity (Re: [[DEBUG] force] 2642458962: BUG:  unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90000997f18) Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2016-06-27 19:00 +0200
        Re: kthread_stop insanity (Re: [[DEBUG] force] 2642458962: BUG:  unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90000997f18) Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2016-06-28 21:00 +0200
          Re: kthread_stop insanity (Re: [[DEBUG] force] 2642458962: BUG:  unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90000997f18) Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-28 21:20 +0200
            Re: kthread_stop insanity (Re: [[DEBUG] force] 2642458962: BUG:  unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90000997f18) Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2016-06-28 22:20 +0200
              Re: kthread_stop insanity (Re: [[DEBUG] force] 2642458962: BUG:  unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90000997f18) Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-28 23:00 +0200
                Re: kthread_stop insanity (Re: [[DEBUG] force] 2642458962: BUG:  unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90000997f18) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-06-28 23:20 +0200
                Re: kthread_stop insanity (Re: [[DEBUG] force] 2642458962: BUG:  unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90000997f18) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-06-28 23:20 +0200
                Re: kthread_stop insanity (Re: [[DEBUG] force] 2642458962: BUG:  unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90000997f18) Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-28 23:30 +0200
                Re: kthread_stop insanity (Re: [[DEBUG] force] 2642458962: BUG:  unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90000997f18) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-06-28 23:40 +0200
                Re: kthread_stop insanity (Re: [[DEBUG] force] 2642458962: BUG:  unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90000997f18) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-06-28 23:50 +0200
                Re: kthread_stop insanity (Re: [[DEBUG] force] 2642458962: BUG:  unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90000997f18) Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2016-06-29 01:00 +0200
                Re: kthread_stop insanity (Re: [[DEBUG] force] 2642458962: BUG:  unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90000997f18) Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2016-06-29 01:10 +0200
                Re: kthread_stop insanity (Re: [[DEBUG] force] 2642458962: BUG:  unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90000997f18) Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-29 17:40 +0200
                [PATCH] kthread: to_live_kthread() needs try_get_task_stack() Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2016-06-29 20:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kthread: to_live_kthread() needs try_get_task_stack() kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2016-06-29 20:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kthread: to_live_kthread() needs try_get_task_stack() Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2016-06-29 20:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kthread: to_live_kthread() needs try_get_task_stack() kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2016-06-29 21:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kthread: to_live_kthread() needs try_get_task_stack() Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-30 01:10 +0200
          Re: kthread_stop insanity (Re: [[DEBUG] force] 2642458962: BUG:  unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90000997f18) Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2016-06-30 01:40 +0200
  Re: kthread_stop insanity (Re: [[DEBUG] force] 2642458962: BUG:  unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90000997f18) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-06-27 19:20 +0200

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