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authorAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2012-06-09 02:40:03 -0700
committerPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>2012-06-20 10:01:04 +0300
commite7b691b085fda913830e5280ae6f724b2a63c824 (patch)
tree9fbd380538f1c3fd5e36c5beeac35041351baf40 /include
parent8c138bc00925521c4e764269db3a903bd2a51592 (diff)
slab/mempolicy: always use local policy from interrupt context
slab_node() could access current->mempolicy from interrupt context. However there's a race condition during exit where the mempolicy is first freed and then the pointer zeroed. Using this from interrupts seems bogus anyways. The interrupt will interrupt a random process and therefore get a random mempolicy. Many times, this will be idle's, which noone can change. Just disable this here and always use local for slab from interrupts. I also cleaned up the callers of slab_node a bit which always passed the same argument. I believe the original mempolicy code did that in fact, so it's likely a regression. v2: send version with correct logic v3: simplify. fix typo. Reported-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Cc: penberg@kernel.org Cc: cl@linux.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> [tdmackey@twitter.com: Rework control flow based on feedback from cl@linux.com, fix logic, and cleanup current task_struct reference] Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David Mackey <tdmackey@twitter.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mempolicy.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mempolicy.h b/include/linux/mempolicy.h
index 4aa42732e47f..95b738c7abff 100644
--- a/include/linux/mempolicy.h
+++ b/include/linux/mempolicy.h
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ extern struct zonelist *huge_zonelist(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
extern bool init_nodemask_of_mempolicy(nodemask_t *mask);
extern bool mempolicy_nodemask_intersects(struct task_struct *tsk,
const nodemask_t *mask);
-extern unsigned slab_node(struct mempolicy *policy);
+extern unsigned slab_node(void);
extern enum zone_type policy_zone;