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authorRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>2010-12-03 16:57:45 -0500
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>2010-12-06 17:52:08 -0500
commitc9e664f1fdf34aa8cede047b206deaa8f1945af0 (patch)
tree6038002f46173ca785936ac2fe54177197f98a08 /kernel/power/user.c
parent9f339caf8454f0c21983111350ede93983db4340 (diff)
PM / Hibernate: Fix memory corruption related to swap
There is a problem that swap pages allocated before the creation of a hibernation image can be released and used for storing the contents of different memory pages while the image is being saved. Since the kernel stored in the image doesn't know of that, it causes memory corruption to occur after resume from hibernation, especially on systems with relatively small RAM that need to swap often. This issue can be addressed by keeping the GFP_IOFS bits clear in gfp_allowed_mask during the entire hibernation, including the saving of the image, until the system is finally turned off or the hibernation is aborted. Unfortunately, for this purpose it's necessary to rework the way in which the hibernate and suspend code manipulates gfp_allowed_mask. This change is based on an earlier patch from Hugh Dickins. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Reported-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/power/user.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/power/user.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/power/user.c b/kernel/power/user.c
index e819e17877ca..1b2ea31e6bd8 100644
--- a/kernel/power/user.c
+++ b/kernel/power/user.c
@@ -263,6 +263,7 @@ static long snapshot_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd,
263 case SNAPSHOT_UNFREEZE: 263 case SNAPSHOT_UNFREEZE:
264 if (!data->frozen || data->ready) 264 if (!data->frozen || data->ready)
265 break; 265 break;
266 pm_restore_gfp_mask();
266 thaw_processes(); 267 thaw_processes();
267 usermodehelper_enable(); 268 usermodehelper_enable();
268 data->frozen = 0; 269 data->frozen = 0;
@@ -275,6 +276,7 @@ static long snapshot_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd,
275 error = -EPERM; 276 error = -EPERM;
276 break; 277 break;
277 } 278 }
279 pm_restore_gfp_mask();
278 error = hibernation_snapshot(data->platform_support); 280 error = hibernation_snapshot(data->platform_support);
279 if (!error) 281 if (!error)
280 error = put_user(in_suspend, (int __user *)arg); 282 error = put_user(in_suspend, (int __user *)arg);