mm: bugfix: set current->reclaim_state to NULL while returning from kswapd()

In kswapd(), set current->reclaim_state to NULL before returning, as
current->reclaim_state holds reference to variable on kswapd()'s stack.

In rare cases, while returning from kswapd() during memory offlining,
__free_slab() and freepages() can access the dangling pointer of
current->reclaim_state.

Signed-off-by: Takamori Yamaguchi <takamori.yamaguchi@jp.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Aaditya Kumar <aaditya.kumar@ap.sony.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Takamori Yamaguchi 2012-11-08 15:53:39 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 848561d368
commit b0a8cc58e6

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@ -3017,6 +3017,8 @@ static int kswapd(void *p)
&balanced_classzone_idx);
}
}
current->reclaim_state = NULL;
return 0;
}