The patch titled
hugetlb: ensure we do not reference a surplus page after handing it to
buddy
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
hugetlb-ensure-we-do-not-reference-a-surplus-page-after-handing-it-to-buddy.patch
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Subject: hugetlb: ensure we do not reference a surplus page after handing it to
buddy
From: Andy Whitcroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
When we free a page via free_huge_page and we detect that we are in surplus
the page will be returned to the buddy. After this we no longer own the page.
However at the end free_huge_page we clear out our mapping pointer from page
private. Even where the page is not a surplus we free the page to the
hugepage pool, drop the pool locks and then clear page private. In either
case the page may have been reallocated. BAD.
Make sure we clear out page private before we free the page.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Adam Litke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN
mm/hugetlb.c~hugetlb-ensure-we-do-not-reference-a-surplus-page-after-handing-it-to-buddy
mm/hugetlb.c
---
a/mm/hugetlb.c~hugetlb-ensure-we-do-not-reference-a-surplus-page-after-handing-it-to-buddy
+++ a/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ static void free_huge_page(struct page *
struct address_space *mapping;
mapping = (struct address_space *) page_private(page);
+ set_page_private(page, 0);
BUG_ON(page_count(page));
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&page->lru);
@@ -134,7 +135,6 @@ static void free_huge_page(struct page *
spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
if (mapping)
hugetlb_put_quota(mapping, 1);
- set_page_private(page, 0);
}
/*
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are
hugetlb-ensure-we-do-not-reference-a-surplus-page-after-handing-it-to-buddy.patch
register_memory-unregister_memory-fix-use-after-free-and-refcounting.patch
page-owner-tracking-leak-detector.patch
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