* [PATCH] PM / Hibernate: Fix free_unnecessary_pages()
@ 2011-07-06 18:46 Rafael J. Wysocki
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From: Rafael J. Wysocki @ 2011-07-06 18:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux PM mailing list; +Cc: LKML, Matthew Garrett
From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
There is a bug in free_unnecessary_pages() that causes it to
attempt to free too many pages in some cases, which triggers the
BUG_ON() in memory_bm_clear_bit() for copy_bm. Namely, if
count_data_pages() is initially greater than alloc_normal, we get
to_free_normal equal to 0 and "save" greater from 0. In that case,
if the sum of "save" and count_highmem_pages() is greater than
alloc_highmem, we subtract a positive number from to_free_normal.
Hence, since to_free_normal was 0 before the subtraction and is
an unsigned int, the result is converted to a huge positive number
that is used as the number of pages to free.
Fix this bug by checking if to_free_normal is actually greater
than or equal to the number we're going to subtract from it.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Reported-and-tested-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
---
kernel/power/snapshot.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/power/snapshot.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/power/snapshot.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/power/snapshot.c
@@ -1211,7 +1211,11 @@ static void free_unnecessary_pages(void)
to_free_highmem = alloc_highmem - save;
} else {
to_free_highmem = 0;
- to_free_normal -= save - alloc_highmem;
+ save -= alloc_highmem;
+ if (to_free_normal > save)
+ to_free_normal -= save;
+ else
+ to_free_normal = 0;
}
memory_bm_position_reset(©_bm);
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