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author | Takamori Yamaguchi <takamori.yamaguchi@jp.sony.com> | 2012-11-09 00:53:39 +0100 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-11-09 06:41:47 +0100 |
commit | b0a8cc58e6b9aaae3045752059e5e6260c0b94bc (patch) | |
tree | 9c699b9a9bdeeb940b2e96b4cd5325061dd28b02 | |
parent | fanotify: fix missing break (diff) | |
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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>
-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) &balanced_classzone_idx); } } + + current->reclaim_state = NULL; return 0; } |