Re: [PATCH] mempolicy: reduce stack size of migrate_pages()

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Mon Jun 21 2010 - 07:46:37 EST


> > const struct cred *cred = current_cred(), *tcred;
> > - struct mm_struct *mm;
> > + struct mm_struct *mm = NULL;
> > struct task_struct *task;
> > - nodemask_t old;
> > - nodemask_t new;
> > nodemask_t task_nodes;
> > int err;
> > + NODEMASK_SCRATCH(scratch);
> > + nodemask_t *old = &scratch->mask1;
> > + nodemask_t *new = &scratch->mask2;
> >
> > + if (!scratch)
> > + return -ENOMEM;
>
> It doesn't matter in practice, but it makes me all queazy to see code
> which plays with pointers which might be NULL.

I see. thanks.
Do we need to send you updated patch?


>
> --- a/mm/mempolicy.c~mempolicy-reduce-stack-size-of-migrate_pages-fix
> +++ a/mm/mempolicy.c
> @@ -1279,13 +1279,16 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(migrate_pages, pid_t, pi
> struct task_struct *task;
> nodemask_t task_nodes;
> int err;
> + nodemask_t *old;
> + nodemask_t *new;
> NODEMASK_SCRATCH(scratch);
> - nodemask_t *old = &scratch->mask1;
> - nodemask_t *new = &scratch->mask2;
>
> if (!scratch)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> + old = &scratch->mask1;
> + new = &scratch->mask2;
> +
> err = get_nodes(old, old_nodes, maxnode);
> if (err)
> goto out;
> _
>
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