Thread (175 messages) 175 messages, 3 authors, 2012-11-26

[ 001/171] mm: bugfix: set current->reclaim_state to NULL while returning from kswapd()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2012-11-22 18:33:54
Also in: lkml

3.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Takamori Yamaguchi <redacted>

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 <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Aaditya Kumar <redacted>
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>

---
 mm/vmscan.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -3128,6 +3128,8 @@ static int kswapd(void *p)
 						&balanced_classzone_idx);
 		}
 	}
+
+	current->reclaim_state = NULL;
 	return 0;
 }
 

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