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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>2012-12-05 14:01:41 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-12-06 11:56:43 -0800
commit18a2f371f5edf41810f6469cb9be39931ef9deb9 (patch)
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tmpfs: fix shared mempolicy leak
This fixes a regression in 3.7-rc, which has since gone into stable. Commit 00442ad04a5e ("mempolicy: fix a memory corruption by refcount imbalance in alloc_pages_vma()") changed get_vma_policy() to raise the refcount on a shmem shared mempolicy; whereas shmem_alloc_page() went on expecting alloc_page_vma() to drop the refcount it had acquired. This deserves a rework: but for now fix the leak in shmem_alloc_page(). Hugh: shmem_swapin() did not need a fix, but surely it's clearer to use the same refcounting there as in shmem_alloc_page(), delete its onstack mempolicy, and the strange mpol_cond_copy() and __mpol_cond_copy() - those were invented to let swapin_readahead() make an unknown number of calls to alloc_pages_vma() with one mempolicy; but since 00442ad04a5e, alloc_pages_vma() has kept refcount in balance, so now no problem. Reported-and-tested-by: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mempolicy.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mempolicy.h16
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mempolicy.h b/include/linux/mempolicy.h
index e5ccb9ddd90e..dbd212723b74 100644
--- a/include/linux/mempolicy.h
+++ b/include/linux/mempolicy.h
@@ -82,16 +82,6 @@ static inline void mpol_cond_put(struct mempolicy *pol)
__mpol_put(pol);
}
-extern struct mempolicy *__mpol_cond_copy(struct mempolicy *tompol,
- struct mempolicy *frompol);
-static inline struct mempolicy *mpol_cond_copy(struct mempolicy *tompol,
- struct mempolicy *frompol)
-{
- if (!frompol)
- return frompol;
- return __mpol_cond_copy(tompol, frompol);
-}
-
extern struct mempolicy *__mpol_dup(struct mempolicy *pol);
static inline struct mempolicy *mpol_dup(struct mempolicy *pol)
{
@@ -215,12 +205,6 @@ static inline void mpol_cond_put(struct mempolicy *pol)
{
}
-static inline struct mempolicy *mpol_cond_copy(struct mempolicy *to,
- struct mempolicy *from)
-{
- return from;
-}
-
static inline void mpol_get(struct mempolicy *pol)
{
}