From 0bd6f78c3016704d2b6978eab835dcd0759dca36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:53:28 -0700 Subject: mm: mempolicy: fix mbind_range() && vma_adjust() interaction commit 3964acd0dbec123aa0a621973a2a0580034b4788 upstream. vma_adjust() does vma_set_policy(vma, vma_policy(next)) and this is doubly wrong: 1. This leaks vma->vm_policy if it is not NULL and not equal to next->vm_policy. This can happen if vma_merge() expands "area", not prev (case 8). 2. This sets the wrong policy if vma_merge() joins prev and area, area is the vma the caller needs to update and it still has the old policy. Revert commit 1444f92c8498 ("mm: merging memory blocks resets mempolicy") which introduced these problems. Change mbind_range() to recheck mpol_equal() after vma_merge() to fix the problem that commit tried to address. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Steven T Hampson Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/mmap.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/mmap.c') diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index f681e1842fa..7dbe39745be 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -865,7 +865,7 @@ again: remove_next = 1 + (end > next->vm_end); if (next->anon_vma) anon_vma_merge(vma, next); mm->map_count--; - vma_set_policy(vma, vma_policy(next)); + mpol_put(vma_policy(next)); kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, next); /* * In mprotect's case 6 (see comments on vma_merge), -- cgit v1.2.3