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Re: [PATCH] mm: kmemleak: Ensure that the task stack is not freed during scanning

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From Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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Subject Re: [PATCH] mm: kmemleak: Ensure that the task stack is not freed during scanning
Date Wed, 12 Oct 2016 12:50:01 +0200
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On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 06:16:46PM +0800, Hillf Danton wrote:
> > @@ -1453,8 +1453,11 @@ static void kmemleak_scan(void)
> > 
> >  		read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
> >  		do_each_thread(g, p) {
> 
> Take a look at this commit please.
> 	1da4db0cd5 ("oom_kill: change oom_kill.c to use for_each_thread()")

Thanks. Isn't holding tasklist_lock here enough to avoid such races?

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Catalin

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[PATCH] mm: kmemleak: Ensure that the task stack is not freed during scanning Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> - 2016-10-12 12:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mm: kmemleak: Ensure that the task stack is not freed during scanning "Hillf Danton" <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> - 2016-10-12 12:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] mm: kmemleak: Ensure that the task stack is not freed  during scanning Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> - 2016-10-12 12:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mm: kmemleak: Ensure that the task stack is not freed  during scanning Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2016-10-12 12:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mm: kmemleak: Ensure that the task stack is not freed  during scanning Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> - 2016-10-12 18:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mm: kmemleak: Ensure that the task stack is not freed  during scanning CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com> - 2016-10-12 18:40 +0200

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