[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "mm/vmpressure.c: fix race in vmpressure_work_fn()" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    mm/vmpressure.c: fix race in vmpressure_work_fn()

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt3.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From a4d42590d3602d8270f2691b9d827f4397c74501 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2014 15:59:28 -0800
Subject: mm/vmpressure.c: fix race in vmpressure_work_fn()

commit 91b57191cfd152c02ded0745250167d0263084f8 upstream.

In some android devices, there will be a "divide by zero" exception.
vmpr->scanned could be zero before spin_lock(&vmpr->sr_lock).

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88051

[akpm at linux-foundation.org: neaten]
Reported-by: ji_ang <ji_ang at 163.com>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 mm/vmpressure.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmpressure.c b/mm/vmpressure.c
index d4042e75f7c7..c5afd573d7da 100644
--- a/mm/vmpressure.c
+++ b/mm/vmpressure.c
@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ static void vmpressure_work_fn(struct work_struct *work)
 	unsigned long scanned;
 	unsigned long reclaimed;

+	spin_lock(&vmpr->sr_lock);
 	/*
 	 * Several contexts might be calling vmpressure(), so it is
 	 * possible that the work was rescheduled again before the old
@@ -173,11 +174,12 @@ static void vmpressure_work_fn(struct work_struct *work)
 	 * here. No need for any locks here since we don't care if
 	 * vmpr->reclaimed is in sync.
 	 */
-	if (!vmpr->scanned)
+	scanned = vmpr->scanned;
+	if (!scanned) {
+		spin_unlock(&vmpr->sr_lock);
 		return;
+	}

-	spin_lock(&vmpr->sr_lock);
-	scanned = vmpr->scanned;
 	reclaimed = vmpr->reclaimed;
 	vmpr->scanned = 0;
 	vmpr->reclaimed = 0;