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authorChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>2013-01-23 21:45:48 +0000
committerPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>2013-04-05 14:23:06 +0300
commit7cccd80b4397699902aced1ad3d692d384aaab77 (patch)
tree010bad7b7e3d3969f6050406b448fbcbc57cdca0 /mm/slab.c
parent4d7868e6475d478172581828021bd8a356726679 (diff)
slub: tid must be retrieved from the percpu area of the current processor
As Steven Rostedt has pointer out: rescheduling could occur on a different processor after the determination of the per cpu pointer and before the tid is retrieved. This could result in allocation from the wrong node in slab_alloc(). The effect is much more severe in slab_free() where we could free to the freelist of the wrong page. The window for something like that occurring is pretty small but it is possible. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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