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mempolicy: fix a race in shared_policy_replace()
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Wed, 26 Sep 2012 01:33:16 +0000 (11:33 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 26 Sep 2012 05:41:32 +0000 (15:41 +1000)
commit24babcecff44f1e6b36fe28678241309864b530a
treeeb49cec9925850fbcfb18c74121ddf3df9d47111
parentf2c280cf88eff375828e2acb1e3186b8fe32fdbd
mempolicy: fix a race in shared_policy_replace()

shared_policy_replace() use of sp_alloc() is unsafe.  1) sp_node cannot be
dereferenced if sp->lock is not held and 2) another thread can modify
sp_node between spin_unlock for allocating a new sp node and next
spin_lock.  The bug was introduced before 2.6.12-rc2.

Kosaki's original patch for this problem was to allocate an sp node and
policy within shared_policy_replace and initialise it when the lock is
reacquired.  I was not keen on this approach because it partially
duplicates sp_alloc().  As the paths were sp->lock is taken are not that
performance critical this patch converts sp->lock to sp->mutex so it can
sleep when calling sp_alloc().

[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: Original patch]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mempolicy.h
mm/mempolicy.c