Re: [PATCH][urgent fix] swsusp: prevent possible image corruption on resume

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> The function free_pagedir() used by swsusp for freeing its internal data
> structures clears the PG_nosave and PG_nosave_free flags for each page being
> freed.  However, during resume PG_nosave_free set means that the page
> in question is "unsafe" (ie. it will be overwritten in the process of restoring the
> saved system state from the image), so it should not be used for the image
> data.  Therefore free_pagedir() should not clear PG_nosave_free if it's
> called during resume (otherwise "unsafe" pages freed by it may be used for
> storing the image data and the data may get corrupted later on).

Okay with me.
								Pavel

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