Re: [RFC][PATCH] Reduce size of swap_cgroup by CSS ID v2

From: Daisuke Nishimura
Date: Mon Feb 23 2009 - 01:04:47 EST


I'm sorry for my late reply.

It looks good basically, but I have 1 comment.

> static struct mem_cgroup *try_get_mem_cgroup_from_swapcache(struct page *page)
> {
> - struct mem_cgroup *mem;
> + unsigned short id;
> + struct mem_cgroup *mem = NULL;
> swp_entry_t ent;
>
> if (!PageSwapCache(page))
> return NULL;
>
> ent.val = page_private(page);
> - mem = lookup_swap_cgroup(ent);
> - if (!mem)
> - return NULL;
> + id = lookup_swap_cgroup(ent);
> + rcu_read_lock();
> + mem = mem_cgroup_lookup(id);
> if (!css_tryget(&mem->css))
We should check whether "mem" is NULL or not before css_tryget, because
"mem" can be NULL(or "id" can be 0) if the page is on swapcache,
that is, remove_from_swap_cache has not been called yet.

Actually, I got NULL pointer dereference bug here.

> - return NULL;
> + mem = NULL;
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> return mem;
> }
>


Thanks,
Daisuke Nishimura.
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