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Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 20:22:29 -0800
From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>
To: Hoeun Ryu <hoeun.ryu@...il.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] fork: free vmapped stacks in
 cache when cpus are offline

Hi Hoeun,

On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 01:03:46PM +0900, Hoeun Ryu wrote:
> +static int free_vm_stack_cache(unsigned int cpu)
> +{
> +	int i;
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < NR_CACHED_STACKS; i++) {
> +		struct vm_struct *vm_stack = this_cpu_read(cached_stacks[i]);
> +		if (!vm_stack)
> +			continue;
> +
> +		vfree(vm_stack->addr);
> +		this_cpu_write(cached_stacks[i], NULL);
> +	}
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}

Doesn't this need to free the stacks for the 'cpu' that's passed in, instead of
"this" CPU?

- Eric

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