linux/include
Pravin B Shelar 5bf5f03c27 mm: fix slab->page flags corruption
Transparent huge pages can change page->flags (PG_compound_lock) without
taking Slab lock.  Since THP can not break slab pages we can safely access
compound page without taking compound lock.

Specifically this patch fixes a race between compound_unlock() and slab
functions which perform page-flags updates.  This can occur when
get_page()/put_page() is called on a page from slab.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment text, fix comment layout, fix label indenting]
Reported-by: Amey Bhide <abhide@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-29 16:22:24 -07:00
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acpi ACPI: Add _PLD support 2012-05-11 17:03:12 -07:00
asm-generic mm: pmd_read_atomic: fix 32bit PAE pmd walk vs pmd_populate SMP race condition 2012-05-29 16:22:24 -07:00
crypto
drm ttm: add prime sharing support to TTM (v2) 2012-05-23 10:46:27 +01:00
keys KEYS: Permit in-place link replacement in keyring list 2012-05-11 10:56:56 +01:00
linux mm: fix slab->page flags corruption 2012-05-29 16:22:24 -07:00
math-emu
media [media] patch for Asus My Cinema PS3-100 (1043:48cd) 2012-05-20 16:05:02 -03:00
memory ddr: add LPDDR2 data from JESD209-2 2012-05-02 00:04:06 -07:00
misc
mtd UBI: amend commentaries WRT dtype 2012-05-20 20:25:59 +03:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-05-24 11:54:29 -07:00
pcmcia
rdma Merge branches 'core', 'cxgb4', 'ipath', 'iser', 'lockdep', 'mlx4', 'nes', 'ocrdma', 'qib' and 'raw-qp' into for-linus 2012-05-21 09:00:47 -07:00
rxrpc
scsi isci update for 3.5 2012-05-21 12:17:30 +01:00
sound ASoC: Last minute updates 2012-05-22 02:58:55 +02:00
target target: Add MI_REPORT_TARGET_PGS ext. header + implict_trans_secs attribute 2012-05-17 00:45:58 -07:00
trace mm: vmscan: remove reclaim_mode_t 2012-05-29 16:22:19 -07:00
video arm-soc: First batch of cleanups 2012-05-22 09:23:24 -07:00
xen xen: do not map the same GSI twice in PVHVM guests. 2012-05-21 14:11:36 -04:00
Kbuild