tmpfs: fix shared mempolicy leak
This fixes a regression in 3.7-rc, which has since gone into stable.
Commit 00442ad04a5e ("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 00442ad04a5e,
alloc_pages_vma() has kept refcount in balance, so now no problem.
Reported-and-tested-by: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 89341b6..50c5b8f 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -910,25 +910,8 @@
static struct page *shmem_swapin(swp_entry_t swap, gfp_t gfp,
struct shmem_inode_info *info, pgoff_t index)
{
- struct mempolicy mpol, *spol;
struct vm_area_struct pvma;
-
- spol = mpol_cond_copy(&mpol,
- mpol_shared_policy_lookup(&info->policy, index));
-
- /* Create a pseudo vma that just contains the policy */
- pvma.vm_start = 0;
- /* Bias interleave by inode number to distribute better across nodes */
- pvma.vm_pgoff = index + info->vfs_inode.i_ino;
- pvma.vm_ops = NULL;
- pvma.vm_policy = spol;
- return swapin_readahead(swap, gfp, &pvma, 0);
-}
-
-static struct page *shmem_alloc_page(gfp_t gfp,
- struct shmem_inode_info *info, pgoff_t index)
-{
- struct vm_area_struct pvma;
+ struct page *page;
/* Create a pseudo vma that just contains the policy */
pvma.vm_start = 0;
@@ -937,10 +920,33 @@
pvma.vm_ops = NULL;
pvma.vm_policy = mpol_shared_policy_lookup(&info->policy, index);
- /*
- * alloc_page_vma() will drop the shared policy reference
- */
- return alloc_page_vma(gfp, &pvma, 0);
+ page = swapin_readahead(swap, gfp, &pvma, 0);
+
+ /* Drop reference taken by mpol_shared_policy_lookup() */
+ mpol_cond_put(pvma.vm_policy);
+
+ return page;
+}
+
+static struct page *shmem_alloc_page(gfp_t gfp,
+ struct shmem_inode_info *info, pgoff_t index)
+{
+ struct vm_area_struct pvma;
+ struct page *page;
+
+ /* Create a pseudo vma that just contains the policy */
+ pvma.vm_start = 0;
+ /* Bias interleave by inode number to distribute better across nodes */
+ pvma.vm_pgoff = index + info->vfs_inode.i_ino;
+ pvma.vm_ops = NULL;
+ pvma.vm_policy = mpol_shared_policy_lookup(&info->policy, index);
+
+ page = alloc_page_vma(gfp, &pvma, 0);
+
+ /* Drop reference taken by mpol_shared_policy_lookup() */
+ mpol_cond_put(pvma.vm_policy);
+
+ return page;
}
#else /* !CONFIG_NUMA */
#ifdef CONFIG_TMPFS