Commit 6fb8f424 authored by Nick Piggin's avatar Nick Piggin Committed by Pekka Enberg

slob: fix lockup in slob_free()

Don't hold SLOB lock when freeing the page. Reduces lock hold width. See
the following thread for discussion of the bug:

  http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123709983214143&w=2Reported-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: default avatarMatt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
parent b578f3fc
......@@ -393,10 +393,11 @@ static void slob_free(void *block, int size)
/* Go directly to page allocator. Do not pass slob allocator */
if (slob_page_free(sp))
clear_slob_page_free(sp);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&slob_lock, flags);
clear_slob_page(sp);
free_slob_page(sp);
free_page((unsigned long)b);
goto out;
return;
}
if (!slob_page_free(sp)) {
......
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