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| author | Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> | 2012-12-05 14:01:41 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-12-06 11:56:43 -0800 |
| commit | 18a2f371f5edf41810f6469cb9be39931ef9deb9 (patch) | |
| tree | 4e4ec26f13273b36fc7203d2084ea09f14c5f0f7 /mm/mempolicy.c | |
| parent | c702418f8a2fa6cc92e84a39880d458faf7af9cc (diff) | |
tmpfs: fix shared mempolicy leak
This fixes a regression in 3.7-rc, which has since gone into stable.
Commit 00442ad04a5e ("mempolicy: fix a memory corruption by refcount
imbalance in alloc_pages_vma()") changed get_vma_policy() to raise the
refcount on a shmem shared mempolicy; whereas shmem_alloc_page() went
on expecting alloc_page_vma() to drop the refcount it had acquired.
This deserves a rework: but for now fix the leak in shmem_alloc_page().
Hugh: shmem_swapin() did not need a fix, but surely it's clearer to use
the same refcounting there as in shmem_alloc_page(), delete its onstack
mempolicy, and the strange mpol_cond_copy() and __mpol_cond_copy() -
those were invented to let swapin_readahead() make an unknown number of
calls to alloc_pages_vma() with one mempolicy; but since 00442ad04a5e,
alloc_pages_vma() has kept refcount in balance, so now no problem.
Reported-and-tested-by: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mempolicy.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/mempolicy.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c index d04a8a54c294..4ea600da8940 100644 --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -2037,28 +2037,6 @@ struct mempolicy *__mpol_dup(struct mempolicy *old) return new; } -/* - * If *frompol needs [has] an extra ref, copy *frompol to *tompol , - * eliminate the * MPOL_F_* flags that require conditional ref and - * [NOTE!!!] drop the extra ref. Not safe to reference *frompol directly - * after return. Use the returned value. - * - * Allows use of a mempolicy for, e.g., multiple allocations with a single - * policy lookup, even if the policy needs/has extra ref on lookup. - * shmem_readahead needs this. - */ -struct mempolicy *__mpol_cond_copy(struct mempolicy *tompol, - struct mempolicy *frompol) -{ - if (!mpol_needs_cond_ref(frompol)) - return frompol; - - *tompol = *frompol; - tompol->flags &= ~MPOL_F_SHARED; /* copy doesn't need unref */ - __mpol_put(frompol); - return tompol; -} - /* Slow path of a mempolicy comparison */ bool __mpol_equal(struct mempolicy *a, struct mempolicy *b) { |