qubes-linux-kernel/patches.suse/SoN-30-fix-uninitialized-var.patch
2011-04-19 22:09:59 +02:00

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From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 30/31] Fix use of uninitialized variable in cache_grow()
Patch-mainline: not yet
This fixes a bug in reserve-slub.patch.
If cache_grow() was called with objp != NULL then the 'reserve' local
variable wasn't initialized. This resulted in ac->reserve being set to
a rubbish value. Due to this in some circumstances huge amounts of
slab pages were allocated (due to slab_force_alloc() returning true),
which caused atomic page allocation failures and slowdown of the
system.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
---
mm/slab.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -2841,7 +2841,7 @@ static int cache_grow(struct kmem_cache
size_t offset;
gfp_t local_flags;
struct kmem_list3 *l3;
- int reserve;
+ int reserve = -1;
/*
* Be lazy and only check for valid flags here, keeping it out of the
@@ -2897,7 +2897,8 @@ static int cache_grow(struct kmem_cache
if (local_flags & __GFP_WAIT)
local_irq_disable();
check_irq_off();
- slab_set_reserve(cachep, reserve);
+ if (reserve != -1)
+ slab_set_reserve(cachep, reserve);
spin_lock(&l3->list_lock);
/* Make slab active. */