Re: [PATCH] slab/mempolicy: always use local policy from interruptcontext v3

[Christoph Lameter]

>
> slab_node() could access current->mempolicy from interrupt context.
> However there's a race condition during exit where the mempolicy
> is first freed and then the pointer zeroed.
>
> Using this from interrupts seems bogus anyways. The interrupt
> will interrupt a random process and therefore get a random
> mempolicy. Many times, this will be idle's, which noone can change.
>
> Just disable this here and always use local for slab
> from interrupts. I also cleaned up the callers of slab_node a bit
> which always passed the same argument.
>
> I believe the original mempolicy code did that in fact,
> so it's likely a regression.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>

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