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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm/mempolicy.c: do not put mempolicy before using its nodemask
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 03:11:24PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> Since commit be97a41b291e ("mm/mempolicy.c: merge alloc_hugepage_vma to
> alloc_pages_vma") alloc_pages_vma() can potentially free a mempolicy by
> mpol_cond_put() before accessing the embedded nodemask by
> __alloc_pages_nodemask(). The commit log says it's so "we can use a single
> exit path within the function" but that's clearly wrong. We can still do that
> when doing mpol_cond_put() after the allocation attempt.
>
> Make sure the mempolicy is not freed prematurely, otherwise
> __alloc_pages_nodemask() can end up using a bogus nodemask, which could lead
> e.g. to premature OOM.
>
> Fixes: be97a41b291e ("mm/mempolicy.c: merge alloc_hugepage_vma to alloc_pages_vma")
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>

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Kirill A. Shutemov

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