oom_kill.c: futex: delay the OOM reaper to allow time for proper futex cleanup
The pthread struct is allocated on PRIVATE|ANONYMOUS memory [1] which can be targeted by the oom reaper. This mapping is used to store the futex robust list head; the kernel does not keep a copy of the robust list and instead references a userspace address to maintain the robustness during a process death. A race can occur between exit_mm and the oom reaper that allows the oom reaper to free the memory of the futex robust list before the exit path has handled the futex death: CPU1 CPU2 -------------------------------------------------------------------- page_fault do_exit "signal" wake_oom_reaper oom_reaper oom_reap_task_mm (invalidates mm) exit_mm exit_mm_release futex_exit_release futex_cleanup exit_robust_list get_user (EFAULT- can't access memory) If the get_user EFAULT's, the kernel will be unable to recover the waiters on the robust_list, leaving userspace mutexes hung indefinitely. Delay the OOM reaper, allowing more time for the exit path to perform the futex cleanup. Reproducer: https://gitlab.com/jsavitz/oom_futex_reproducer Based on a patch by Michal Hocko. Link: https://elixir.bootlin.com/glibc/glibc-2.35/source/nptl/allocatestack.c#L370 [1] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220414144042.677008-1-npache@redhat.com Fixes: 21292580 ("mm: oom: let oom_reap_task and exit_mmap run concurrently") Signed-off-by: Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Co-developed-by: Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Herton R. Krzesinski <herton@redhat.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com> Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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