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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
	Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rmap: anon_vma_prepare() can leak anon_vma_chain
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:47:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BCE12CA.1070209@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100420192420.GA20840@redhat.com>

On 04/20/2010 03:24 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> If find_mergeable_anon_vma() succeeds but another thread installs
> ->anon_vma before we take ptl, then allocated == NULL but avc should
> be freed. Change the code to check avc != NULL to detect this case.

Good catch!

> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov<oleg@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

      reply	other threads:[~2010-04-20 20:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20100415120940.GA31762@redhat.com>
     [not found] ` <4BCD0E78.9050904@redhat.com>
2010-04-20 19:24   ` [PATCH] rmap: anon_vma_prepare() can leak anon_vma_chain Oleg Nesterov
2010-04-20 20:47     ` Rik van Riel [this message]

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