3.8-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Hillf Danton <[email protected]>

commit 5ca3957510b9fc2a14d3647db518014842f9a2b4 upstream.

n->end is accessed in sp_insert(). Thus it should be update
before calling sp_insert(). This mistake may make kernel panic.

Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <[email protected]>
Cc: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Jones <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 mm/mempolicy.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2386,8 +2386,8 @@ restart:
                                *mpol_new = *n->policy;
                                atomic_set(&mpol_new->refcnt, 1);
                                sp_node_init(n_new, n->end, end, mpol_new);
-                               sp_insert(sp, n_new);
                                n->end = start;
+                               sp_insert(sp, n_new);
                                n_new = NULL;
                                mpol_new = NULL;
                                break;


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