Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 15:40:31 +0100
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
        Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 41/50] sched: numa: Use {cpu, pid} to create task groups
 for shared faults
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On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 08:42:18PM +0800, Hillf Danton wrote:
> Hello Mel
> 
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > +void task_numa_free(struct task_struct *p)
> > +{
> > +       struct numa_group *grp = p->numa_group;
> > +       int i;
> > +
> > +       kfree(p->numa_faults);
> > +
> > +       if (grp) {
> > +               for (i = 0; i < 2*nr_node_ids; i++)
> > +                       atomic_long_sub(p->numa_faults[i], &grp->faults[i]);
> > +
> use after free, numa_faults ;/
> 

It gets fixed in the patch "sched: numa: use group fault statistics in
numa placement" but I agree that it's the wrong place to fix it.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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