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memcg: res_counter_read_u64(): fix potential races on 32-bit machines
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res_counter_read_u64 reads u64 value without lock.  It's dangerous in a
32bit environment.  Add locking.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Thelen <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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hkamezawa authored and torvalds committed Mar 24, 2011
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Expand Up @@ -126,10 +126,24 @@ ssize_t res_counter_read(struct res_counter *counter, int member,
pos, buf, s - buf);
}

#if BITS_PER_LONG == 32
u64 res_counter_read_u64(struct res_counter *counter, int member)
{
unsigned long flags;
u64 ret;

spin_lock_irqsave(&counter->lock, flags);
ret = *res_counter_member(counter, member);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&counter->lock, flags);

return ret;
}
#else
u64 res_counter_read_u64(struct res_counter *counter, int member)
{
return *res_counter_member(counter, member);
}
#endif

int res_counter_memparse_write_strategy(const char *buf,
unsigned long long *res)
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