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Subject[v2.6.34-stable 102/213] mm: bugfix: set current->reclaim_state to NULL while returning from kswapd()
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From: Takamori Yamaguchi <takamori.yamaguchi@jp.sony.com>

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This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-2.6.34.git
If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
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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 <takamori.yamaguchi@jp.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Aaditya Kumar <aaditya.kumar@ap.sony.com>
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: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 5c4620600333..365a899bcae0 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2341,6 +2341,8 @@ static int kswapd(void *p)
if (!ret)
balance_pgdat(pgdat, order);
}
+
+ current->reclaim_state = NULL;
return 0;
}

--
1.8.5.2


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