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mempolicy: fix a memory corruption by refcount imbalance in alloc_pages_vma()
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Fri, 7 Sep 2012 00:23:13 +0000 (10:23 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fri, 7 Sep 2012 05:36:13 +0000 (15:36 +1000)
commit807e3eb93369e363c5ec983786413cb853c26668
treec379510729d49115269ac56ea7dd19f22773f547
parentc0bb0379d2397f705694c8093f10a12972fcdbfc
mempolicy: fix a memory corruption by refcount imbalance in alloc_pages_vma()

cc9a6c87 ("cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related
damage v3") introduced a potential memory corruption.  shmem_alloc_page()
uses a pseudo vma and it has one significant unique combination,
vma->vm_ops=NULL and vma->policy->flags & MPOL_F_SHARED.

get_vma_policy() does NOT increase a policy ref when vma->vm_ops=NULL and
mpol_cond_put() DOES decrease a policy ref when a policy has
MPOL_F_SHARED.  Therefore, when a cpuset update race occurs,
alloc_pages_vma() falls in 'goto retry_cpuset' path, decrements the
reference count and frees the policy prematurely.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/mempolicy.c