The patch titled
mm: fix incorrect variable type in do_try_to_free_pages()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-fix-incorrect-variable-type-in-do_try_to_free_pages.patch
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Subject: mm: fix incorrect variable type in do_try_to_free_pages()
From: kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Smarter retry of costly-order allocations" patch series change behaver of
do_try_to_free_pages(). But unfortunately ret variable type was
unchanged.
Thus an overflow is possible.
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~mm-fix-incorrect-variable-type-in-do_try_to_free_pages mm/vmscan.c
--- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-fix-incorrect-variable-type-in-do_try_to_free_pages
+++ a/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1342,7 +1342,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_page
struct scan_control *sc)
{
int priority;
- int ret = 0;
+ unsigned long ret = 0;
unsigned long total_scanned = 0;
unsigned long nr_reclaimed = 0;
struct reclaim_state *reclaim_state = current->reclaim_state;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
page-allocator-inlnie-some-__alloc_pages-wrappers.patch
page-allocator-inlnie-some-__alloc_pages-wrappers-fix.patch
mm-hugetlbc-fix-duplicate-variable.patch
page-flags-record-page-flag-overlays-explicitly.patch
slub-record-page-flag-overlays-explicitly.patch
slob-record-page-flag-overlays-explicitly.patch
call_usermodehelper-increase-reliability.patch
cgroup-list_for_each-cleanup-v2.patch
make-mm-memoryc-print_bad_pte-static.patch
mm-swapfilec-make-code-static.patch
make-mm-rmapc-anon_vma_cachep-static.patch
mm-fix-incorrect-variable-type-in-do_try_to_free_pages.patch
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