From 1926ee85a903d189c5702eed6531be321e33eb47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jack Steiner Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:28:33 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] gru: fix potential use-after-free when purging GRU tlbs Fix potential SGI GRU bug that could cause a use-after-free. If one thread in a task is flushing the GRU and another thread destroys the GRU context, there is the potential to access a table after it has been freed. Copy the gms pointer to a local variable before unlocking the gts table. Note that no refcnt is needed for the gms - the reference is held indirectly by the task's mm_struct. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed