From 9ef0a0ffa28edbf5c7cfa6be73b4ecb9896a3875 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Rientjes Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 16:07:31 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm, writeback: prevent race when calculating dirty limits Setting vm_dirty_bytes and dirty_background_bytes is not protected by any serialization. Therefore, it's possible for either variable to change value after the test in global_dirty_limits() to determine whether available_memory needs to be initialized or not. Always ensure that available_memory is properly initialized. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed