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cgroup: fix an off-by-one bug which may trigger BUG_ON()
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The 3rd parameter of flex_array_prealloc() is the number of elements,
not the index of the last element.

The effect of the bug is, when opening cgroup.procs, a flex array will
be allocated and all elements of the array is allocated with
GFP_KERNEL flag, but the last one is GFP_ATOMIC, and if we fail to
allocate memory for it, it'll trigger a BUG_ON().

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
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lizf-os authored and htejun committed Mar 20, 2013
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Expand Up @@ -2076,7 +2076,7 @@ static int cgroup_attach_proc(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct task_struct *leader)
if (!group)
return -ENOMEM;
/* pre-allocate to guarantee space while iterating in rcu read-side. */
retval = flex_array_prealloc(group, 0, group_size - 1, GFP_KERNEL);
retval = flex_array_prealloc(group, 0, group_size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (retval)
goto out_free_group_list;

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