[PATCH] mm: fix oom roll-back of __vmalloc_area_node
__vunmap must not rely on area->nr_pages when picking the release methode
for area->pages. It may be too small when __vmalloc_area_node failed early
due to lacking memory. Instead, use a flag in vmstruct to differentiate.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 7b45079..266162d 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@
__free_page(area->pages[i]);
}
- if (area->nr_pages > PAGE_SIZE/sizeof(struct page *))
+ if (area->flags & VM_VPAGES)
vfree(area->pages);
else
kfree(area->pages);
@@ -427,9 +427,10 @@
area->nr_pages = nr_pages;
/* Please note that the recursion is strictly bounded. */
- if (array_size > PAGE_SIZE)
+ if (array_size > PAGE_SIZE) {
pages = __vmalloc_node(array_size, gfp_mask, PAGE_KERNEL, node);
- else
+ area->flags |= VM_VPAGES;
+ } else
pages = kmalloc_node(array_size, (gfp_mask & ~__GFP_HIGHMEM), node);
area->pages = pages;
if (!area->pages) {