This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mm/vmpressure.c: fix race in vmpressure_work_fn()

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     mm-vmpressure.c-fix-race-in-vmpressure_work_fn.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 91b57191cfd152c02ded0745250167d0263084f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 15:59:28 -0800
Subject: mm/vmpressure.c: fix race in vmpressure_work_fn()

From: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

commit 91b57191cfd152c02ded0745250167d0263084f8 upstream.

In some android devices, there will be a "divide by zero" exception.
vmpr->scanned could be zero before spin_lock(&vmpr->sr_lock).

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88051

[[email protected]: neaten]
Reported-by: ji_ang <[email protected]>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 mm/vmpressure.c |    8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/vmpressure.c
+++ b/mm/vmpressure.c
@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ static void vmpressure_work_fn(struct wo
        unsigned long scanned;
        unsigned long reclaimed;
 
+       spin_lock(&vmpr->sr_lock);
        /*
         * Several contexts might be calling vmpressure(), so it is
         * possible that the work was rescheduled again before the old
@@ -173,11 +174,12 @@ static void vmpressure_work_fn(struct wo
         * here. No need for any locks here since we don't care if
         * vmpr->reclaimed is in sync.
         */
-       if (!vmpr->scanned)
+       scanned = vmpr->scanned;
+       if (!scanned) {
+               spin_unlock(&vmpr->sr_lock);
                return;
+       }
 
-       spin_lock(&vmpr->sr_lock);
-       scanned = vmpr->scanned;
        reclaimed = vmpr->reclaimed;
        vmpr->scanned = 0;
        vmpr->reclaimed = 0;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] 
are

queue-3.14/mm-vmpressure.c-fix-race-in-vmpressure_work_fn.patch
queue-3.14/mm-fix-swapoff-hang-after-page-migration-and-fork.patch
queue-3.14/mm-frontswap-invalidate-expired-data-on-a-dup-store-failure.patch
queue-3.14/mm-fix-anon_vma_clone-error-treatment.patch
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