[CVE Quantal Precise Oneiric 1/1] mm/hotplug: correctly add new zone to all other nodes' zone lists
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue Nov 27 18:29:12 UTC 2012
From: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu at huawei.com>
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1079860
When online_pages() is called to add new memory to an empty zone, it
rebuilds all zone lists by calling build_all_zonelists(). But there's a
bug which prevents the new zone to be added to other nodes' zone lists.
online_pages() {
build_all_zonelists()
.....
node_set_state(zone_to_nid(zone), N_HIGH_MEMORY)
}
Here the node of the zone is put into N_HIGH_MEMORY state after calling
build_all_zonelists(), but build_all_zonelists() only adds zones from
nodes in N_HIGH_MEMORY state to the fallback zone lists.
build_all_zonelists()
->__build_all_zonelists()
->build_zonelists()
->find_next_best_node()
->for_each_node_state(n, N_HIGH_MEMORY)
So memory in the new zone will never be used by other nodes, and it may
cause strange behavor when system is under memory pressure. So put node
into N_HIGH_MEMORY state before calling build_all_zonelists().
Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo at huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <liuj97 at gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman at suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko at suse.cz>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan at kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai at kernel.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck at intel.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu at jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro at jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes at google.com>
Cc: Keping Chen <chenkeping at huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 08dff7b7d629807dbb1f398c68dd9cd58dd657a1)
CVE-2012-5517
Conflicts:
mm/memory_hotplug.c
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
mm/memory_hotplug.c | 15 ++++++++-------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 0086ac9..17651cd 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -516,19 +516,20 @@ int __ref online_pages(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages)
zone->present_pages += onlined_pages;
zone->zone_pgdat->node_present_pages += onlined_pages;
- if (need_zonelists_rebuild)
- build_all_zonelists(zone);
- else
- zone_pcp_update(zone);
+ if (onlined_pages) {
+ node_set_state(zone_to_nid(zone), N_HIGH_MEMORY);
+ if (need_zonelists_rebuild)
+ build_all_zonelists(zone);
+ else
+ zone_pcp_update(zone);
+ }
mutex_unlock(&zonelists_mutex);
init_per_zone_wmark_min();
- if (onlined_pages) {
+ if (onlined_pages)
kswapd_run(zone_to_nid(zone));
- node_set_state(zone_to_nid(zone), N_HIGH_MEMORY);
- }
vm_total_pages = nr_free_pagecache_pages();
--
1.7.10.4
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