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sched/mm_cid: Prevent NULL mm dereference in sched_mm_cid_after_execve()
authorCong Wang <cwang@multikernel.io>
Tue, 23 Dec 2025 21:51:13 +0000 (13:51 -0800)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Fri, 9 Jan 2026 12:02:57 +0000 (13:02 +0100)
commit2bdf777410dc6e022d1081885ff34673b5dfee99
tree5a369dca9ec971aeba85768e9fbbe6771b140a3d
parent9ace4753a5202b02191d54e9fdf7f9e3d02b85eb
sched/mm_cid: Prevent NULL mm dereference in sched_mm_cid_after_execve()

sched_mm_cid_after_execve() is called in bprm_execve()'s cleanup path even
when exec_binprm() fails. For the init task's first execve(), this causes a
problem:

  1. current->mm is NULL (kernel threads don't have an mm)
  2. sched_mm_cid_before_execve() exits early because mm is NULL
  3. exec_binprm() fails (e.g., ENOENT for missing script interpreter)
  4. sched_mm_cid_after_execve() is called with mm still NULL
  5. sched_mm_cid_fork() is called unconditionally, triggering WARN_ON

This is easily reproduced by booting with an init that is a shell script
(#!/bin/sh) where the interpreter doesn't exist in the initramfs.

Fix this by checking if t->mm is NULL before calling sched_mm_cid_fork(),
matching the behavior of sched_mm_cid_before_execve() which already
handles this case via sched_mm_cid_exit()'s early return.

Fixes: b0c3d51b54f8 ("sched/mmcid: Provide precomputed maximal value")
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <cwang@multikernel.io>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251223215113.639686-1-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com
kernel/sched/core.c