Commit abca7c49 authored by Pravin B Shelar's avatar Pravin B Shelar Committed by Linus Torvalds

mm: fix slab->page _count corruption when using slub

On arches that do not support this_cpu_cmpxchg_double() slab_lock is used
to do atomic cmpxchg() on double word which contains page->_count.  The
page count can be changed from get_page() or put_page() without taking
slab_lock.  That corrupts page counter.

Fix it by moving page->_count out of cmpxchg_double data.  So that slub
does no change it while updating slub meta-data in struct page.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use standard comment layout, tweak comment text]
Reported-by: default avatarAmey Bhide <abhide@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Acked-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 485802a6
......@@ -57,8 +57,18 @@ struct page {
};
union {
#if defined(CONFIG_HAVE_CMPXCHG_DOUBLE) && \
defined(CONFIG_HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE)
/* Used for cmpxchg_double in slub */
unsigned long counters;
#else
/*
* Keep _count separate from slub cmpxchg_double data.
* As the rest of the double word is protected by
* slab_lock but _count is not.
*/
unsigned counters;
#endif
struct {
......
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