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[PATCH v5 30/32] x86/dumpstack: Pin the target stack in save_stack_trace_tsk()

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  [PATCH v5 30/32] x86/dumpstack: Pin the target stack in save_stack_trace_tsk() Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2016-07-11 23:00 +0200

#1440876 — [PATCH v5 30/32] x86/dumpstack: Pin the target stack in save_stack_trace_tsk()

This will prevent a crash if the target task dies before or while
dumping its stack once we start freeing task stacks early.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c
index 9ee98eefc44d..cc0826409a21 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c
@@ -79,9 +79,14 @@ void save_stack_trace_regs(struct pt_regs *regs, struct stack_trace *trace)
 
 void save_stack_trace_tsk(struct task_struct *tsk, struct stack_trace *trace)
 {
+	if (!try_get_task_stack(tsk))
+		return;
+
 	dump_trace(tsk, NULL, NULL, 0, &save_stack_ops_nosched, trace);
 	if (trace->nr_entries < trace->max_entries)
 		trace->entries[trace->nr_entries++] = ULONG_MAX;
+
+	put_task_stack(tsk);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(save_stack_trace_tsk);
 
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2.7.4

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