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Commit 18a2f371 authored by Mel Gorman's avatar Mel Gorman Committed by Linus Torvalds
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tmpfs: fix shared mempolicy leak

This fixes a regression in 3.7-rc, which has since gone into stable.

Commit 00442ad0 ("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 00442ad0

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alloc_pages_vma() has kept refcount in balance, so now no problem.

Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarTommi Rantala <tt.rantala@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent c702418f
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