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From: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
To: Aaditya Kumar <aaditya.kumar.30@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	takamori.yamaguchi@jp.sony.com, takuzo.ohara@ap.sony.com,
	amit.agarwal@ap.sony.com, tim.bird@am.sony.com,
	frank.rowand@am.sony.com, kan.iibuchi@jp.sony.com,
	aaditya.kumar@ap.sony.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: bugfix: set current->reclaim_state to NULL while returning from kswapd()
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 13:44:32 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1211051342240.5296@chino.kir.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEtiSasbEXUeFwCNO09nT8TsEzLF-zZVyJ_pCO9V49hDPbpbAQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 6 Nov 2012, Aaditya Kumar wrote:

> From: Takamori Yamaguchi <takamori.yamaguchi@jp.sony.com>
> 
> 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 off lining,
> __free_slab() can access dangling pointer of current->reclaim_state.
> 

It's __free_slab() for slub and kmem_freepages() for slab.

> 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>

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2012-11-05 20:13 Aaditya Kumar
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