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authorTakamori Yamaguchi <takamori.yamaguchi@jp.sony.com>2012-11-08 15:53:39 -0800
committerWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>2013-06-10 11:42:29 +0200
commit61daa923b480d1bb6f2340d8bca26b6503723d41 (patch)
tree0529b04f93ec8f3d2e746df83fbc5375b5061d48 /mm
parent6d9f42bed29dd5e643d392b5e038cb0c12c96678 (diff)
mm: bugfix: set current->reclaim_state to NULL while returning from kswapd()
commit b0a8cc58e6b9aaae3045752059e5e6260c0b94bc upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 4649929401f8..738db2b29e19 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2241,6 +2241,8 @@ static int kswapd(void *p)
balance_pgdat(pgdat, order);
}
}
+
+ current->reclaim_state = NULL;
return 0;
}