From c9e664f1fdf34aa8cede047b206deaa8f1945af0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 22:57:45 +0100 Subject: PM / Hibernate: Fix memory corruption related to swap There is a problem that swap pages allocated before the creation of a hibernation image can be released and used for storing the contents of different memory pages while the image is being saved. Since the kernel stored in the image doesn't know of that, it causes memory corruption to occur after resume from hibernation, especially on systems with relatively small RAM that need to swap often. This issue can be addressed by keeping the GFP_IOFS bits clear in gfp_allowed_mask during the entire hibernation, including the saving of the image, until the system is finally turned off or the hibernation is aborted. Unfortunately, for this purpose it's necessary to rework the way in which the hibernate and suspend code manipulates gfp_allowed_mask. This change is based on an earlier patch from Hugh Dickins. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Reported-by: Ondrej Zary Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: stable@kernel.org --- kernel/power/user.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/power/user.c') diff --git a/kernel/power/user.c b/kernel/power/user.c index e819e17877ca..1b2ea31e6bd8 100644 --- a/kernel/power/user.c +++ b/kernel/power/user.c @@ -263,6 +263,7 @@ static long snapshot_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, case SNAPSHOT_UNFREEZE: if (!data->frozen || data->ready) break; + pm_restore_gfp_mask(); thaw_processes(); usermodehelper_enable(); data->frozen = 0; @@ -275,6 +276,7 @@ static long snapshot_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, error = -EPERM; break; } + pm_restore_gfp_mask(); error = hibernation_snapshot(data->platform_support); if (!error) error = put_user(in_suspend, (int __user *)arg); -- cgit