The patch titled
Subject: mm: bugfix: set current->reclaim_state to NULL while returning
from kswapd()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-bugfix-set-current-reclaim_state-to-null-while-returning-from-kswapd.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Takamori Yamaguchi <[email protected]>
Subject: mm: bugfix: set current->reclaim_state to NULL while returning from
kswapd()
In kswapd(), set current->reclaim_state to NULL before returning, as
current->reclaim_state holds reference to variable on kswapd()'s stack.
In rare cases, while returning from kswapd() during memory offlining,
__free_slab() and freepages() can access the dangling pointer of
current->reclaim_state.
Signed-off-by: Takamori Yamaguchi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Aaditya Kumar <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff -puN
mm/vmscan.c~mm-bugfix-set-current-reclaim_state-to-null-while-returning-from-kswapd
mm/vmscan.c
---
a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-bugfix-set-current-reclaim_state-to-null-while-returning-from-kswapd
+++ a/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -3017,6 +3017,8 @@ static int kswapd(void *p)
&balanced_classzone_idx);
}
}
+
+ current->reclaim_state = NULL;
return 0;
}
_
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