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mm: bugfix: set current->reclaim_state to NULL while returning from kswapd()
authorTakamori Yamaguchi <takamori.yamaguchi@jp.sony.com>
Thu, 8 Nov 2012 23:53:39 +0000 (15:53 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:14:04 +0000 (12:14 -0800)
commit9e9dbb97a010f748114404bd44ab2e02082d215c
treea42ffea6c03fc7d07763be96bf26915c4834a276
parent9f3dc4baa6813f64f89ce408dc93bdcba38ba022
mm: bugfix: set current->reclaim_state to NULL while returning from kswapd()

commit b0a8cc58e6b9aaae3045752059e5e6260c0b94bc upstream.

In kswapd(), set current->reclaim_state to NULL before returning, as
current->reclaim_state holds reference to variable on kswapd()'s stack.

In rare cases, while returning from kswapd() during memory offlining,
__free_slab() and freepages() can access the dangling pointer of
current->reclaim_state.

Signed-off-by: Takamori Yamaguchi <takamori.yamaguchi@jp.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Aaditya Kumar <aaditya.kumar@ap.sony.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/vmscan.c