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author | Takamori Yamaguchi <takamori.yamaguchi@jp.sony.com> | 2012-11-08 18:53:39 -0500 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-11-09 00:41:47 -0500 |
commit | b0a8cc58e6b9aaae3045752059e5e6260c0b94bc (patch) | |
tree | 9c699b9a9bdeeb940b2e96b4cd5325061dd28b02 /mm/vmscan.c | |
parent | 848561d368751a1c0f679b9f045a02944506a801 (diff) |
mm: bugfix: set current->reclaim_state to NULL while returning from kswapd()
In kswapd(), set current->reclaim_state to NULL before returning, as
current->reclaim_state holds reference to variable on kswapd()'s stack.
In rare cases, while returning from kswapd() during memory offlining,
__free_slab() and freepages() can access the dangling pointer of
current->reclaim_state.
Signed-off-by: Takamori Yamaguchi <takamori.yamaguchi@jp.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Aaditya Kumar <aaditya.kumar@ap.sony.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 2624edcfb420..8b055e9379bc 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c | |||
@@ -3017,6 +3017,8 @@ static int kswapd(void *p) | |||
3017 | &balanced_classzone_idx); | 3017 | &balanced_classzone_idx); |
3018 | } | 3018 | } |
3019 | } | 3019 | } |
3020 | |||
3021 | current->reclaim_state = NULL; | ||
3020 | return 0; | 3022 | return 0; |
3021 | } | 3023 | } |
3022 | 3024 | ||