Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew)

Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 - various misc bits
 - the rest of MM
 - add generic fixmap.h, use it
 - backlight updates
 - dynamic_debug updates
 - printk() updates
 - checkpatch updates
 - binfmt_elf
 - ramfs
 - init/
 - autofs4
 - drivers/rtc
 - nilfs
 - hfsplus
 - Documentation/
 - coredump
 - procfs
 - fork
 - exec
 - kexec
 - kdump
 - partitions
 - rapidio
 - rbtree
 - userns
 - memstick
 - w1
 - decompressors

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (197 commits)
  lib/decompress_unlz4.c: always set an error return code on failures
  romfs: fix returm err while getting inode in fill_super
  drivers/w1/masters/w1-gpio.c: add strong pullup emulation
  drivers/memstick/host/rtsx_pci_ms.c: fix ms card data transfer bug
  userns: relax the posix_acl_valid() checks
  arch/sh/kernel/dwarf.c: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of solution using repeated rb_erase()
  fs-ext3-use-rbtree-postorder-iteration-helper-instead-of-opencoding-fix
  fs/ext3: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
  fs/jffs2: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
  fs/ext4: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
  fs/ubifs: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
  net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_hash_netiface.c: use rbtree postorder iteration instead of opencoding
  rbtree/test: test rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe()
  rbtree/test: move rb_node to the middle of the test struct
  rapidio: add modular rapidio core build into powerpc and mips branches
  partitions/efi: complete documentation of gpt kernel param purpose
  kdump: add /sys/kernel/vmcoreinfo ABI documentation
  kdump: fix exported size of vmcoreinfo note
  kexec: add sysctl to disable kexec_load
  fs/exec.c: call arch_pick_mmap_layout() only once
  ...

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/slab.h b/mm/slab.h
index 0859c4241ba1..8184a7cde272 100644
--- a/mm/slab.h
+++ b/mm/slab.h
@@ -160,12 +160,36 @@ static inline const char *cache_name(struct kmem_cache *s)
 	return s->name;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Note, we protect with RCU only the memcg_caches array, not per-memcg caches.
+ * That said the caller must assure the memcg's cache won't go away. Since once
+ * created a memcg's cache is destroyed only along with the root cache, it is
+ * true if we are going to allocate from the cache or hold a reference to the
+ * root cache by other means. Otherwise, we should hold either the slab_mutex
+ * or the memcg's slab_caches_mutex while calling this function and accessing
+ * the returned value.
+ */
 static inline struct kmem_cache *
 cache_from_memcg_idx(struct kmem_cache *s, int idx)
 {
+	struct kmem_cache *cachep;
+	struct memcg_cache_params *params;
+
 	if (!s->memcg_params)
 		return NULL;
-	return s->memcg_params->memcg_caches[idx];
+
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	params = rcu_dereference(s->memcg_params);
+	cachep = params->memcg_caches[idx];
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+
+	/*
+	 * Make sure we will access the up-to-date value. The code updating
+	 * memcg_caches issues a write barrier to match this (see
+	 * memcg_register_cache()).
+	 */
+	smp_read_barrier_depends();
+	return cachep;
 }
 
 static inline struct kmem_cache *memcg_root_cache(struct kmem_cache *s)