From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:35:28 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: tmpfs: fix oops on mounts with mpol=default
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.27.46~7
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6af438190daa4b53c1570c09244f99f2db447f78;p=pandora-kernel.git

tmpfs: fix oops on mounts with mpol=default

commit 413b43deab8377819aba1dbad2abf0c15d59b491 upstream.

Fix an 'oops' when a tmpfs mount point is mounted with the mpol=default
mempolicy.

Upon remounting a tmpfs mount point with 'mpol=default' option, the mount
code crashed with a null pointer dereference.  The initial problem report
was on 2.6.27, but the problem exists in mainline 2.6.34-rc as well.  On
examining the code, we see that mpol_new returns NULL if default mempolicy
was requested.  This 'NULL' mempolicy is accessed to store the node mask
resulting in oops.

The following patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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