1. 17 Dec, 2012 1 commit
    • Mel Gorman's avatar
      tmpfs: fix shared mempolicy leak · 78a685be
      Mel Gorman authored
      commit 18a2f371 upstream.
      
      This fixes a regression in 3.7-rc, which has since gone into stable.
      
      Commit 00442ad0 ("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 00442ad0,
      alloc_pages_vma() has kept refcount in balance, so now no problem.
      Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarTommi Rantala <tt.rantala@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      78a685be
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