hugetlb: fix race in alloc_fresh_huge_page()
authorJoe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:38:12 +0000 (23:38 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:05:35 +0000 (09:05 -0700)
commitf96efd585b8d847181f81bf16721f96ded18d9fe
tree10821321b4f501e3126606ef2b54eb356ec8ef77
parent2706a1b89b1a3e7434a668d4a9d15f616da96685
hugetlb: fix race in alloc_fresh_huge_page()

That static `nid' index needs locking.  Without it we can end up calling
alloc_pages_node() with an illegal node ID and the kernel crashes.

Acked-by: gurudas pai <gurudas.pai@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/hugetlb.c