mm/huge_memory.c: fix potential NULL pointer dereference
authorLibin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>
Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:20:38 +0000 (14:20 -0700)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sat, 26 Oct 2013 20:06:03 +0000 (21:06 +0100)
commit56cbe7f7ee88a2eb06226ab3b5b4333fe0df663f
treef8535ed6256cf152fb95324cd499a3552ae14817
parent89b2cd31a07fcee833fd0284eaeb7d57419a698f
mm/huge_memory.c: fix potential NULL pointer dereference

commit a8f531ebc33052642b4bd7b812eedf397108ce64 upstream.

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.libin@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
mm/huge_memory.c