From: Takamori Yamaguchi <takamori.yamaguchi@jp.sony.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 23:53:39 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: mm: bugfix: set current->reclaim_state to NULL while returning from kswapd()
X-Git-Tag: v3.6.8~82
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9e9dbb97a010f748114404bd44ab2e02082d215c;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git

mm: bugfix: set current->reclaim_state to NULL while returning from kswapd()

commit b0a8cc58e6b9aaae3045752059e5e6260c0b94bc upstream.

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 offlining,
__free_slab() and freepages() can access the dangling pointer of
current->reclaim_state.

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>
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>
---

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 99b434b674c02..a018dfcbb2f76 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2953,6 +2953,8 @@ static int kswapd(void *p)
 						&balanced_classzone_idx);
 		}
 	}
+
+	current->reclaim_state = NULL;
 	return 0;
 }