Subject: [merged] mm-fix-potential-null-pointer-dereference.patch removed from
-mm tree
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From: a...@linux-foundation.org
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 12:42:53 -0700
The patch titled
Subject: mm/huge_memory.c: fix potential NULL pointer dereference
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-fix-potential-null-pointer-dereference.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Libin <huawei.li...@huawei.com>
Subject: mm/huge_memory.c: fix potential NULL pointer dereference
In collapse_huge_page() there is a race window between releasing the
mmap_sem read lock and taking the mmap_sem write lock, so find_vma() may
return NULL. So check the return value to avoid NULL pointer dereference.
collapse_huge_page
khugepaged_alloc_page
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem)
down_write(&mm->mmap_sem)
vma = find_vma(mm, address)
Signed-off-by: Libin <huawei.li...@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liw...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.0+
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/huge_memory.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff -puN mm/huge_memory.c~mm-fix-potential-null-pointer-dereference
mm/huge_memory.c
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c~mm-fix-potential-null-pointer-dereference
+++ a/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2296,6 +2296,8 @@ static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm
goto out;
vma = find_vma(mm, address);
+ if (!vma)
+ goto out;
hstart = (vma->vm_start + ~HPAGE_PMD_MASK) & HPAGE_PMD_MASK;
hend = vma->vm_end & HPAGE_PMD_MASK;
if (address < hstart || address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE > hend)
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from huawei.li...@huawei.com are
origin.patch
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