Mel Gorman 04a30bd9dc mempolicy: fix a race in shared_policy_replace() ... commit b22d127a39 upstream. shared_policy_replace() use of sp_alloc() is unsafe. 1) sp_node cannot be dereferenced if sp->lock is not held and 2) another thread can modify sp_node between spin_unlock for allocating a new sp node and next spin_lock. The bug was introduced before 2.6.12-rc2. Kosaki's original patch for this problem was to allocate an sp node and policy within shared_policy_replace and initialise it when the lock is reacquired. I was not keen on this approach because it partially duplicates sp_alloc(). As the paths were sp->lock is taken are not that performance critical this patch converts sp->lock to sp->mutex so it can sleep when calling sp_alloc(). [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: Original patch] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> 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>		2012-10-13 05:38:56 +09:00
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acpi	Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux	2012-05-05 10:06:06 -07:00
asm-generic	mutex: Place lock in contended state after fastpath_lock failure	2012-10-02 10:30:21 -07:00
crypto	crypto: user - Fix lookup of algorithms with IV generator	2012-03-29 19:52:47 +08:00
drm	drm: Check for invalid cursor flags	2012-10-02 10:30:23 -07:00
keys
linux	mempolicy: fix a race in shared_policy_replace()	2012-10-13 05:38:56 +09:00
math-emu
media	Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media	2012-05-14 11:23:37 -07:00
misc
mtd
net	xfrm: Workaround incompatibility of ESN and async crypto	2012-10-13 05:38:40 +09:00
pcmcia
rdma
rxrpc
scsi	SCSI: libsas: fix taskfile corruption in sas_ata_qc_fill_rtf	2012-07-16 09:04:37 -07:00
sound	ALSA: hda - hide HDMI/ELD printks unless snd.debug=2	2012-04-10 14:53:55 +02:00
target	target: Add generation of LOGICAL BLOCK ADDRESS OUT OF RANGE	2012-08-09 08:31:26 -07:00
trace	tracing: Don't call page_to_pfn() if page is NULL	2012-10-02 10:30:08 -07:00
video	Merge branch 'platforms' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm	2012-03-27 18:17:02 -07:00
xen	xen/m2p: do not reuse kmap_op->dev_bus_addr	2012-10-02 10:30:06 -07:00
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