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mempolicy: fix a race in shared_policy_replace()
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:58:33 +0000 (10:58 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Tue, 18 Sep 2012 06:04:16 +0000 (16:04 +1000)
commitf7c0948c50f95e475dc04c0ef5d544a610c4cf75
tree12c25462e9936dcee9f172ebea1f9c01a6983cc6
parentf3204f2c098843ccb8ba36241e48ac91d46e210c
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