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    /proc/*/oom_score oops re badness · 19c5d45a
    Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
    Eternal quest to make
    
    	while true; do cat /proc/fs/xfs/stat >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; done
    	while true; do find /proc -type f 2>/dev/null | xargs cat >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; done
    	while true; do modprobe xfs; rmmod xfs; done
    
    work reliably continues and now kernel oopses in the following way:
    
    BUG: unable to handle ... at virtual address 6b6b6b6b
    EIP is at badness
    process: cat
    	proc_oom_score
    	proc_info_read
    	sys_fstat64
    	vfs_read
    	proc_info_read
    	sys_read
    
    Failing code is prefetch hidden in list_for_each_entry() in badness().
    badness() is reachable from two points. One is proc_oom_score, another
    is out_of_memory() => select_bad_process() => badness().
    
    Second path grabs tasklist_lock, while first doesn't.
    Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
    Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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