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Fix the system crash that happens when a task iterator travel through vma of tasks. In task iterators, we used to access mm by following the pointer on the task_struct; however, the death of a task will clear the pointer, even though we still hold the task_struct. That can cause an unexpected crash for a null pointer when an iterator is visiting a task that dies during the visit. Keeping a reference of mm on the iterator ensures we always have a valid pointer to mm. Co-developed-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Kui-Feng Lee <kuifeng@meta.com> Reported-by: Nathan Slingerland <slinger@meta.com> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221216221855.4122288-2-kuifeng@meta.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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