Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756238Ab2KNGDr (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2012 01:03:47 -0500 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:55078 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751881Ab2KNFu0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:50:26 -0500 Message-Id: <20121114053942.803321723@decadent.org.uk> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-1 Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 05:40:38 +0000 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Takamori Yamaguchi , Aaditya Kumar , David Rientjes , Linus Torvalds Subject: [ 65/82] mm: bugfix: set current->reclaim_state to NULL while returning from kswapd() In-Reply-To: <20121114053933.726869752@decadent.org.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:470:1f08:1539:21c:bfff:fe03:f805 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1414 Lines: 45 3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Takamori Yamaguchi 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 Signed-off-by: Aaditya Kumar Acked-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- mm/vmscan.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 2624edc..8b055e9 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; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/