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authorMartijn Coenen <maco@google.com>2016-01-15 16:57:49 -0800
committerSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>2016-02-09 22:57:10 -0500
commitab0d430c52be80895b721552d12e9430bb386258 (patch)
treed05467c9c7ae6264baac20ce7049e82247a111c0
parenta30cd72c78909dfd040fdcb87bab6ef684666086 (diff)
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memcg: only free spare array when readers are done
[ Upstream commit 6611d8d76132f86faa501de9451a89bf23fb2371 ] A spare array holding mem cgroup threshold events is kept around to make sure we can always safely deregister an event and have an array to store the new set of events in. In the scenario where we're going from 1 to 0 registered events, the pointer to the primary array containing 1 event is copied to the spare slot, and then the spare slot is freed because no events are left. However, it is freed before calling synchronize_rcu(), which means readers may still be accessing threshold->primary after it is freed. Fixed by only freeing after synchronize_rcu(). Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
-rw-r--r--mm/memcontrol.c11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index d72bdc3ca09b..0afd8444a8d6 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -4748,16 +4748,17 @@ static void __mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
swap_buffers:
/* Swap primary and spare array */
thresholds->spare = thresholds->primary;
- /* If all events are unregistered, free the spare array */
- if (!new) {
- kfree(thresholds->spare);
- thresholds->spare = NULL;
- }
rcu_assign_pointer(thresholds->primary, new);
/* To be sure that nobody uses thresholds */
synchronize_rcu();
+
+ /* If all events are unregistered, free the spare array */
+ if (!new) {
+ kfree(thresholds->spare);
+ thresholds->spare = NULL;
+ }
unlock:
mutex_unlock(&memcg->thresholds_lock);
}