From 18a2f371f5edf41810f6469cb9be39931ef9deb9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 14:01:41 -0800 Subject: tmpfs: fix shared mempolicy leak This fixes a regression in 3.7-rc, which has since gone into stable. Commit 00442ad04a5e ("mempolicy: fix a memory corruption by refcount imbalance in alloc_pages_vma()") changed get_vma_policy() to raise the refcount on a shmem shared mempolicy; whereas shmem_alloc_page() went on expecting alloc_page_vma() to drop the refcount it had acquired. This deserves a rework: but for now fix the leak in shmem_alloc_page(). Hugh: shmem_swapin() did not need a fix, but surely it's clearer to use the same refcounting there as in shmem_alloc_page(), delete its onstack mempolicy, and the strange mpol_cond_copy() and __mpol_cond_copy() - those were invented to let swapin_readahead() make an unknown number of calls to alloc_pages_vma() with one mempolicy; but since 00442ad04a5e, alloc_pages_vma() has kept refcount in balance, so now no problem. Reported-and-tested-by: Tommi Rantala Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/mempolicy.h | 16 ---------------- 1 file changed, 16 deletions(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/mempolicy.h b/include/linux/mempolicy.h index e5ccb9ddd90e..dbd212723b74 100644 --- a/include/linux/mempolicy.h +++ b/include/linux/mempolicy.h @@ -82,16 +82,6 @@ static inline void mpol_cond_put(struct mempolicy *pol) __mpol_put(pol); } -extern struct mempolicy *__mpol_cond_copy(struct mempolicy *tompol, - struct mempolicy *frompol); -static inline struct mempolicy *mpol_cond_copy(struct mempolicy *tompol, - struct mempolicy *frompol) -{ - if (!frompol) - return frompol; - return __mpol_cond_copy(tompol, frompol); -} - extern struct mempolicy *__mpol_dup(struct mempolicy *pol); static inline struct mempolicy *mpol_dup(struct mempolicy *pol) { @@ -215,12 +205,6 @@ static inline void mpol_cond_put(struct mempolicy *pol) { } -static inline struct mempolicy *mpol_cond_copy(struct mempolicy *to, - struct mempolicy *from) -{ - return from; -} - static inline void mpol_get(struct mempolicy *pol) { } -- cgit v1.2.3