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author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-10-10 19:37:36 (GMT) |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-10-10 19:37:36 (GMT) |
commit | 35b7a1915aa33da812074744647db0d9262a555c (patch) | |
tree | 85ca97083049de5acf67f1a1b467b1db209e7cdc /README | |
parent | 1fadee0c364572f2b2e098b34001fbaa82ee2e00 (diff) | |
parent | 4c450583d9d0a8241f0f62b80038ac47b43ff843 (diff) | |
download | linux-35b7a1915aa33da812074744647db0d9262a555c.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'net-drivers-pgcnt'
Eric Dumazet says:
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net: fix races accessing page->_count
This is illegal to use atomic_set(&page->_count, ...) even if we 'own'
the page. Other entities in the kernel need to use get_page_unless_zero()
to get a reference to the page before testing page properties, so we could
loose a refcount increment.
The only case it is valid is when page->_count is 0, we can use this in
__netdev_alloc_frag()
Note that I never seen crashes caused by these races, the issue was reported
by Andres Lagar-Cavilla and Hugh Dickins.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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