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-rw-r--r--mm/pdflush.c16
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/pdflush.c b/mm/pdflush.c
index a0a14c4d5072..15de509b68fd 100644
--- a/mm/pdflush.c
+++ b/mm/pdflush.c
@@ -172,7 +172,16 @@ static int __pdflush(struct pdflush_work *my_work)
static int pdflush(void *dummy)
{
struct pdflush_work my_work;
- cpumask_t cpus_allowed;
+ cpumask_var_t cpus_allowed;
+
+ /*
+ * Since the caller doesn't even check kthread_run() worked, let's not
+ * freak out too much if this fails.
+ */
+ if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&cpus_allowed, GFP_KERNEL)) {
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "pdflush failed to allocate cpumask\n");
+ return 0;
+ }
/*
* pdflush can spend a lot of time doing encryption via dm-crypt. We
@@ -187,8 +196,9 @@ static int pdflush(void *dummy)
* This is needed as pdflush's are dynamically created and destroyed.
* The boottime pdflush's are easily placed w/o these 2 lines.
*/
- cpuset_cpus_allowed(current, &cpus_allowed);
- set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, &cpus_allowed);
+ cpuset_cpus_allowed(current, cpus_allowed);
+ set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpus_allowed);
+ free_cpumask_var(cpus_allowed);
return __pdflush(&my_work);
}