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

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From: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com>

commit 3964acd0dbec123aa0a621973a2a0580034b4788 upstream.

vma_adjust() does vma_set_policy(vma, vma_policy(next)) and this
is doubly wrong:

1. This leaks vma->vm_policy if it is not NULL and not equal to
   next->vm_policy.

   This can happen if vma_merge() expands "area", not prev (case 8).

2. This sets the wrong policy if vma_merge() joins prev and area,
   area is the vma the caller needs to update and it still has the
   old policy.

Revert commit 1444f92c8498 ("mm: merging memory blocks resets
mempolicy") which introduced these problems.

Change mbind_range() to recheck mpol_equal() after vma_merge() to fix
the problem that commit tried to address.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motoh...@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven T Hampson <steven.t.hamp...@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgor...@suse.de>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motoh...@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <a...@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/mempolicy.c |    6 +++++-
 mm/mmap.c      |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -732,7 +732,10 @@ static int mbind_range(struct mm_struct
                if (prev) {
                        vma = prev;
                        next = vma->vm_next;
-                       continue;
+                       if (mpol_equal(vma_policy(vma), new_pol))
+                               continue;
+                       /* vma_merge() joined vma && vma->next, case 8 */
+                       goto replace;
                }
                if (vma->vm_start != vmstart) {
                        err = split_vma(vma->vm_mm, vma, vmstart, 1);
@@ -744,6 +747,7 @@ static int mbind_range(struct mm_struct
                        if (err)
                                goto out;
                }
+ replace:
                err = vma_replace_policy(vma, new_pol);
                if (err)
                        goto out;
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -865,7 +865,7 @@ again:                      remove_next = 1 + (end > next->
                if (next->anon_vma)
                        anon_vma_merge(vma, next);
                mm->map_count--;
-               vma_set_policy(vma, vma_policy(next));
+               mpol_put(vma_policy(next));
                kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, next);
                /*
                 * In mprotect's case 6 (see comments on vma_merge),


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