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mempolicy: fix a memory corruption by refcount imbalance in alloc_pages_vma()
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Mon, 8 Oct 2012 23:29:20 +0000 (16:29 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:38:57 +0000 (05:38 +0900)
commitd9302b128e4640df707c99335b3f3ad0e13d0148
tree49e55a194b48cd0f94ede0c18154102127639796
parent04ea8a8388992ad12bc1b32cc16f4220300ea167
mempolicy: fix a memory corruption by refcount imbalance in alloc_pages_vma()

commit 00442ad04a5eac08a98255697c510e708f6082e2 upstream.

Commit cc9a6c877661 ("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>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/mempolicy.c