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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2014-12-02 15:59:28 -0800
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>2015-01-07 16:20:08 +0100
commit5a40e10cc3479a28bac0d4ca3134df7052cb46df (patch)
treef4d1a01e6d4b1e0ae83074613428d5d4d4c93ad6 /mm
parent94724f27bf02e417629d93101a3fbb0dcfe86c28 (diff)
mm/vmpressure.c: fix race in vmpressure_work_fn()
commit 91b57191cfd152c02ded0745250167d0263084f8 upstream. In some android devices, there will be a "divide by zero" exception. vmpr->scanned could be zero before spin_lock(&vmpr->sr_lock). Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88051 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: neaten] Reported-by: ji_ang <ji_ang@163.com> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmpressure.c8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmpressure.c b/mm/vmpressure.c
index e0f62837c3f4..c98b14ee69d6 100644
--- a/mm/vmpressure.c
+++ b/mm/vmpressure.c
@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ static void vmpressure_work_fn(struct work_struct *work)
unsigned long scanned;
unsigned long reclaimed;
+ spin_lock(&vmpr->sr_lock);
/*
* Several contexts might be calling vmpressure(), so it is
* possible that the work was rescheduled again before the old
@@ -172,11 +173,12 @@ static void vmpressure_work_fn(struct work_struct *work)
* here. No need for any locks here since we don't care if
* vmpr->reclaimed is in sync.
*/
- if (!vmpr->scanned)
+ scanned = vmpr->scanned;
+ if (!scanned) {
+ spin_unlock(&vmpr->sr_lock);
return;
+ }
- spin_lock(&vmpr->sr_lock);
- scanned = vmpr->scanned;
reclaimed = vmpr->reclaimed;
vmpr->scanned = 0;
vmpr->reclaimed = 0;