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| author | Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> | 2010-12-04 00:57:45 +0300 |
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| committer | Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> | 2010-12-07 01:52:08 +0300 |
| commit | c9e664f1fdf34aa8cede047b206deaa8f1945af0 (patch) | |
| tree | 6038002f46173ca785936ac2fe54177197f98a08 /kernel/power/user.c | |
| parent | 9f339caf8454f0c21983111350ede93983db4340 (diff) | |
| download | linux-c9e664f1fdf34aa8cede047b206deaa8f1945af0.tar.xz | |
PM / Hibernate: Fix memory corruption related to swap
There is a problem that swap pages allocated before the creation of
a hibernation image can be released and used for storing the contents
of different memory pages while the image is being saved. Since the
kernel stored in the image doesn't know of that, it causes memory
corruption to occur after resume from hibernation, especially on
systems with relatively small RAM that need to swap often.
This issue can be addressed by keeping the GFP_IOFS bits clear
in gfp_allowed_mask during the entire hibernation, including the
saving of the image, until the system is finally turned off or
the hibernation is aborted. Unfortunately, for this purpose
it's necessary to rework the way in which the hibernate and
suspend code manipulates gfp_allowed_mask.
This change is based on an earlier patch from Hugh Dickins.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Reported-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/power/user.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/power/user.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/power/user.c b/kernel/power/user.c index e819e17877ca..1b2ea31e6bd8 100644 --- a/kernel/power/user.c +++ b/kernel/power/user.c @@ -263,6 +263,7 @@ static long snapshot_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, case SNAPSHOT_UNFREEZE: if (!data->frozen || data->ready) break; + pm_restore_gfp_mask(); thaw_processes(); usermodehelper_enable(); data->frozen = 0; @@ -275,6 +276,7 @@ static long snapshot_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, error = -EPERM; break; } + pm_restore_gfp_mask(); error = hibernation_snapshot(data->platform_support); if (!error) error = put_user(in_suspend, (int __user *)arg); |