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authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>2014-08-06 16:07:31 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-08-06 18:01:21 -0700
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mm, writeback: prevent race when calculating dirty limits
Setting vm_dirty_bytes and dirty_background_bytes is not protected by any serialization. Therefore, it's possible for either variable to change value after the test in global_dirty_limits() to determine whether available_memory needs to be initialized or not. Always ensure that available_memory is properly initialized. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c5
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index e0c943014eb7..91d73ef1744d 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -261,14 +261,11 @@ static unsigned long global_dirtyable_memory(void)
*/
void global_dirty_limits(unsigned long *pbackground, unsigned long *pdirty)
{
+ const unsigned long available_memory = global_dirtyable_memory();
unsigned long background;
unsigned long dirty;
- unsigned long uninitialized_var(available_memory);
struct task_struct *tsk;
- if (!vm_dirty_bytes || !dirty_background_bytes)
- available_memory = global_dirtyable_memory();
-
if (vm_dirty_bytes)
dirty = DIV_ROUND_UP(vm_dirty_bytes, PAGE_SIZE);
else