From: Tetsuo Handa Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 11:02:03 +0000 (+0900) Subject: drm/ttm: Fix possible stack overflow by recursive shrinker calls. X-Git-Tag: v3.2.64~185 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=312b559d9e61b473b39d3dc05fe0db43c2df60fb;p=pandora-kernel.git drm/ttm: Fix possible stack overflow by recursive shrinker calls. commit 71336e011d1d2312bcbcaa8fcec7365024f3a95d upstream. While ttm_dma_pool_shrink_scan() tries to take mutex before doing GFP_KERNEL allocation, ttm_pool_shrink_scan() does not do it. This can result in stack overflow if kmalloc() in ttm_page_pool_free() triggered recursion due to memory pressure. shrink_slab() => ttm_pool_shrink_scan() => ttm_page_pool_free() => kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) => shrink_slab() => ttm_pool_shrink_scan() => ttm_page_pool_free() => kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) Change ttm_pool_shrink_scan() to do like ttm_dma_pool_shrink_scan() does. Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie [bwh: Backported to 3.2: - Adjust context - Change return value in the contended case to follow the old shrinker API] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- Reading git-diff-tree failed