From 18a2f371f5edf41810f6469cb9be39931ef9deb9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 14:01:41 -0800 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/mempolicy.c | 22 ---------------------- 1 file changed, 22 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/mempolicy.c') diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c index d04a8a54c294..4ea600da8940 100644 --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -2037,28 +2037,6 @@ struct mempolicy *__mpol_dup(struct mempolicy *old) return new; } -/* - * If *frompol needs [has] an extra ref, copy *frompol to *tompol , - * eliminate the * MPOL_F_* flags that require conditional ref and - * [NOTE!!!] drop the extra ref. Not safe to reference *frompol directly - * after return. Use the returned value. - * - * Allows use of a mempolicy for, e.g., multiple allocations with a single - * policy lookup, even if the policy needs/has extra ref on lookup. - * shmem_readahead needs this. - */ -struct mempolicy *__mpol_cond_copy(struct mempolicy *tompol, - struct mempolicy *frompol) -{ - if (!mpol_needs_cond_ref(frompol)) - return frompol; - - *tompol = *frompol; - tompol->flags &= ~MPOL_F_SHARED; /* copy doesn't need unref */ - __mpol_put(frompol); - return tompol; -} - /* Slow path of a mempolicy comparison */ bool __mpol_equal(struct mempolicy *a, struct mempolicy *b) { -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b