memcg: only free spare array when readers are done
authorMartijn Coenen <maco@google.com>
Sat, 16 Jan 2016 00:57:49 +0000 (16:57 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:57:49 +0000 (11:57 -0800)
commita28c4bb3990dd3f65279ec02c6fa1762044325da
treeb2a250f7be85fdd2f37102dccfea4ad46f764315
parentd5b8e6bb2595ed5ae550e44939016fb9d022fabf
memcg: only free spare array when readers are done

commit 6611d8d76132f86faa501de9451a89bf23fb2371 upstream.

A spare array holding mem cgroup threshold events is kept around to make
sure we can always safely deregister an event and have an array to store
the new set of events in.

In the scenario where we're going from 1 to 0 registered events, the
pointer to the primary array containing 1 event is copied to the spare
slot, and then the spare slot is freed because no events are left.
However, it is freed before calling synchronize_rcu(), which means
readers may still be accessing threshold->primary after it is freed.

Fixed by only freeing after synchronize_rcu().

Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
mm/memcontrol.c