From 56cbe7f7ee88a2eb06226ab3b5b4333fe0df663f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Libin Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:20:38 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- Reading git-format-patch failed