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Tim Chen a2e1673172 mm/swap_slots.c: fix race conditions in swap_slots cache init
Memory allocations can happen before the swap_slots cache initialization
is completed during cpu bring up.  If we are low on memory, we could
call get_swap_page() and access swap_slots_cache before it is fully
initialized.

Add a check in get_swap_page() for initialized swap_slots_cache to
prevent this condition.  Similar check already exists in free_swap_slot.
Also annotate the checks to indicate the likely condition.

We also added a memory barrier to make sure that the locks
initialization are done before the assignment of cache->slots and
cache->slots_ret pointers.  This ensures the assumption that it is safe
to acquire the slots cache locks and use the slots cache when the
corresponding cache->slots or cache->slots_ret pointers are non null.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tidy up comment]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello in comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/65a9d0f133f63e66bba37b53b2fd0464b7cae771.1500677066.git.tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Wenwei Tao <wenwei.tww@alibaba-inc.com>
Acked-by: Ying Huang <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-15 18:21:03 -08:00
Documentation mm/mmu_notifier: avoid double notification when it is useless 2017-11-15 18:21:03 -08:00
arch m32r: fix endianness constraints 2017-11-15 18:21:00 -08:00
block block/blk-mq.c: use kmalloc_array_node() 2017-11-15 18:21:02 -08:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-11-14 10:52:09 -08:00
drivers zram: remove zlib from the list of recommended algorithms 2017-11-15 18:21:03 -08:00
firmware License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
fs mm/mmu_notifier: avoid double notification when it is useless 2017-11-15 18:21:03 -08:00
include mm: remove unused pgdat->inactive_ratio 2017-11-15 18:21:03 -08:00
init mm: slabinfo: remove CONFIG_SLABINFO 2017-11-15 18:21:01 -08:00
ipc License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
kernel arm64 updates for 4.15 2017-11-15 10:56:56 -08:00
lib RISC-V Port for Linux 4.15 v9 2017-11-15 10:49:15 -08:00
mm mm/swap_slots.c: fix race conditions in swap_slots cache init 2017-11-15 18:21:03 -08:00
net net/rds/ib_fmr.c: use kmalloc_array_node() 2017-11-15 18:21:02 -08:00
samples Merge branch 'for-linus' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching 2017-11-15 10:21:58 -08:00
scripts bloat-o-meter: provide 3 different arguments for data, function and All 2017-11-15 18:21:00 -08:00
security Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-11-14 10:52:09 -08:00
sound sound updates for 4.15-rc1 2017-11-14 18:01:46 -08:00
tools tools: slabinfo: add "-U" option to show unreclaimable slabs only 2017-11-15 18:21:01 -08:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt arm64 updates for 4.15 2017-11-15 10:56:56 -08:00
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MAINTAINERS arm64 updates for 4.15 2017-11-15 10:56:56 -08:00
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README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.