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fix potential stack overflow in mm/slab.c

PATCH New Siddha, Suresh B 1 participant 1 message Aug 4, 2006 Memory management

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PATCH 1/1 fix potential stack overflow in mm/slab.c

On High end systems (1024 or so cpus) this can potentially cause stack overflow. Fix the stack usage.

mm/slab.c renamed from mm/slab.c~ +15 -8
@@ -3603,22 +3603,27 @@ static void do_ccupdate_local(void *info
 static int do_tune_cpucache(struct kmem_cache *cachep, int limit,
 				int batchcount, int shared)
 {
-	struct ccupdate_struct new;
+	struct ccupdate_struct *new;
 	int i, err;
 
-	memset(&new.new, 0, sizeof(new.new));
+	new = kmalloc(sizeof(*new), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!new)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	memset(&new->new, 0, sizeof(new->new));
 	for_each_online_cpu(i) {
-		new.new[i] = alloc_arraycache(cpu_to_node(i), limit,
+		new->new[i] = alloc_arraycache(cpu_to_node(i), limit,
 						batchcount);
-		if (!new.new[i]) {
+		if (!new->new[i]) {
 			for (i--; i >= 0; i--)
-				kfree(new.new[i]);
+				kfree(new->new[i]);
+			kfree(new);
 			return -ENOMEM;
 		}
 	}
-	new.cachep = cachep;
+	new->cachep = cachep;
 
-	on_each_cpu(do_ccupdate_local, (void *)&new, 1, 1);
+	on_each_cpu(do_ccupdate_local, (void *)new, 1, 1);
 
 	check_irq_on();
 	cachep->batchcount = batchcount;
@@ -3626,7 +3631,7 @@ static int do_tune_cpucache(struct kmem_
 	cachep->shared = shared;
 
 	for_each_online_cpu(i) {
-		struct array_cache *ccold = new.new[i];
+		struct array_cache *ccold = new->new[i];
 		if (!ccold)
 			continue;
 		spin_lock_irq(&cachep->nodelists[cpu_to_node(i)]->list_lock);
@@ -3641,6 +3646,8 @@ static int do_tune_cpucache(struct kmem_
 		       cachep->name, -err);
 		BUG();
 	}
+
+	kfree(new);
 	return 0;
 }