From: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:37:36 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Merge branch 'net-drivers-pgcnt'
X-Git-Tag: fixes-against-v3.18-rc2~115^2~1
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=35b7a1915aa33da812074744647db0d9262a555c;p=pandora-kernel.git

Merge branch 'net-drivers-pgcnt'

Eric Dumazet says:

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net: fix races accessing page->_count

This is illegal to use atomic_set(&page->_count, ...) even if we 'own'
the page. Other entities in the kernel need to use get_page_unless_zero()
to get a reference to the page before testing page properties, so we could
loose a refcount increment.

The only case it is valid is when page->_count is 0, we can use this in
__netdev_alloc_frag()

Note that I never seen crashes caused by these races, the issue was reported
by Andres Lagar-Cavilla and Hugh Dickins.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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