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| author | Nick Piggin <[email protected]> | 2006-02-07 20:58:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2006-02-08 00:12:33 +0000 |
| commit | 8519fb30e438f8088b71a94a7d5a660a814d3872 (patch) | |
| tree | 8d29a7b1fa33e5f65e649d363cfa10e83c4fab97 /lib/spinlock_debug.c | |
| parent | [PATCH] selinux: require AUDIT (diff) | |
| download | kernel-8519fb30e438f8088b71a94a7d5a660a814d3872.tar.gz kernel-8519fb30e438f8088b71a94a7d5a660a814d3872.zip | |
[PATCH] mm: compound release fix
Compound pages on SMP systems can now often be freed from pagetables via
the release_pages path. This uses put_page_testzero which does not handle
compound pages at all. Releasing constituent pages from process mappings
decrements their count to a large negative number and leaks the reference
at the head page - net result is a memory leak.
The problem was hidden because the debug check in put_page_testzero itself
actually did take compound pages into consideration.
Fix the bug and the debug check.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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