From 064d9efe947542097be669581f82d6b097e81d1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nishanth Aravamudan Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:03:19 -0800 Subject: hugetlb: fix overcommit locking proc_doulongvec_minmax() calls copy_to_user()/copy_from_user(), so we can't hold hugetlb_lock over the call. Use a dummy variable to store the sysctl result, like in hugetlb_sysctl_handler(), then grab the lock to update nr_overcommit_huge_pages. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan Reported-by: Miles Lane Cc: Adam Litke Cc: David Gibson Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/sysctl.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/sysctl.c') diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index 924c674..8b7e954 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -978,8 +978,8 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = { { .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED, .procname = "nr_overcommit_hugepages", - .data = &nr_overcommit_huge_pages, - .maxlen = sizeof(nr_overcommit_huge_pages), + .data = &sysctl_overcommit_huge_pages, + .maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_overcommit_huge_pages), .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = &hugetlb_overcommit_handler, }, -- cgit v1.1