The patch titled
memcg: fix prepare migration
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
memcg-fix-prepare-migration.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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Subject: memcg: fix prepare migration
From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
If a signal is pending (task being killed by sigkill)
__mem_cgroup_try_charge will write NULL into &mem, and css_put will oops
on null pointer dereference.
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010
IP: [<ffffffff810fc6cc>] mem_cgroup_prepare_migration+0x7c/0xc0
PGD a5d89067 PUD a5d8a067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/platform/microcode/firmware/microcode/loading
CPU 0
Modules linked in: nfs lockd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss sunrpc acpi_cpufreq pcspkr sg [last unloaded: microcode]
Pid: 5299, comm: largepages Tainted: G W 2.6.34-rc3 #3 Penryn1600SLI-110dB/To Be Filled By O.E.M.
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810fc6cc>] [<ffffffff810fc6cc>] mem_cgroup_prepare_migration+0x7c/0xc0
[nishimura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: fix merge issues]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-fix-prepare-migration mm/memcontrol.c
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-fix-prepare-migration
+++ a/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2429,11 +2429,11 @@ int mem_cgroup_prepare_migration(struct
}
unlock_page_cgroup(pc);
+ *ptr = mem;
if (mem) {
- ret = __mem_cgroup_try_charge(NULL, GFP_KERNEL, &mem, false);
+ ret = __mem_cgroup_try_charge(NULL, GFP_KERNEL, ptr, false);
css_put(&mem->css);
}
- *ptr = mem;
return ret;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
define-madv_hugepage.patch
mincore-cleanups.patch
mincore-break-do_mincore-into-logical-pieces.patch
mincore-pass-ranges-as-startend-address-pairs.patch
mincore-do-nested-page-table-walks.patch
mmcompaction-memory-compaction-core.patch
mm-document-follow_page.patch
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