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authorLi Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>2014-02-27 18:19:36 +0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-03-23 21:37:05 -0700
commitc5ad4fdec0ae15d197508185643c68470868121d (patch)
treed665cfe6c40a7e0f950aefbba227fcd691e2416e
parentb46741f24d1c0d0d8dcfb3c63439338d2dc0337e (diff)
cpuset: fix a race condition in __cpuset_node_allowed_softwall()
commit 99afb0fd5f05aac467ffa85c36778fec4396209b upstream. It's not safe to access task's cpuset after releasing task_lock(). Holding callback_mutex won't help. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/cpuset.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cpuset.c b/kernel/cpuset.c
index e372d9495e42..4b843ace285c 100644
--- a/kernel/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cpuset.c
@@ -2338,9 +2338,9 @@ int __cpuset_node_allowed_softwall(int node, gfp_t gfp_mask)
task_lock(current);
cs = nearest_hardwall_ancestor(task_cs(current));
+ allowed = node_isset(node, cs->mems_allowed);
task_unlock(current);
- allowed = node_isset(node, cs->mems_allowed);
mutex_unlock(&callback_mutex);
return allowed;
}