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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2009-06-25 21:31:37 +0200 |
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| committer | Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> | 2009-06-26 11:10:47 +0200 |
| commit | 7ed9f7e5db58c6e8c2b4b738a75d5dcd8e17aad5 (patch) | |
| tree | c8ee9b63e1e8d3925b8a08a2b21a331434d183b5 /mm/slab.c | |
| parent | Linux 2.6.31-rc1 (diff) | |
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fix RCU-callback-after-kmem_cache_destroy problem in sl[aou]b
Jesper noted that kmem_cache_destroy() invokes synchronize_rcu() rather than
rcu_barrier() in the SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU case, which could result in RCU
callbacks accessing a kmem_cache after it had been destroyed.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/slab.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/slab.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c index e74a16e4ced6..5241b6598ba3 100644 --- a/mm/slab.c +++ b/mm/slab.c @@ -2547,7 +2547,7 @@ void kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cache *cachep) } if (unlikely(cachep->flags & SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU)) - synchronize_rcu(); + rcu_barrier(); __kmem_cache_destroy(cachep); mutex_unlock(&cache_chain_mutex); |