mm, hotplug: protect zonelist building with zonelists_mutex
authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Thu, 23 Jun 2011 01:13:04 +0000 (18:13 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 23 Jun 2011 04:06:48 +0000 (21:06 -0700)
Commit 959ecc48fc75 ("mm/memory_hotplug.c: fix building of node hotplug
zonelist") does not protect the build_all_zonelists() call with
zonelists_mutex as needed.  This can lead to races in constructing
zonelist ordering if a concurrent build is underway.  Protecting this
with lock_memory_hotplug() is insufficient since zonelists can be
rebuild though sysfs as well.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/memory_hotplug.c

index 78dba9f04b5b7132d6e9c4090be80e0288d1633f..c46887b5a11eaa5bbe48008d16ad71bd37f7302f 100644 (file)
@@ -498,7 +498,9 @@ static pg_data_t __ref *hotadd_new_pgdat(int nid, u64 start)
         * The node we allocated has no zone fallback lists. For avoiding
         * to access not-initialized zonelist, build here.
         */
+       mutex_lock(&zonelists_mutex);
        build_all_zonelists(NULL);
+       mutex_unlock(&zonelists_mutex);
 
        return pgdat;
 }