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mempolicy: fix a memory corruption by refcount imbalance in alloc_pages_vma()
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:19:11 +0000 (10:19 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Thu, 4 Oct 2012 05:03:13 +0000 (15:03 +1000)
commitd1f5c9561218a0f94b4f6c2113159d4b932f4044
tree2c4019d623b04734d89060c29ab5465ca1f70d0f
parent239024453a2834a2307ef0ed9488346049f7acc1
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>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/mempolicy.c