From 6af438190daa4b53c1570c09244f99f2db447f78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:35:28 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Reading git-format-patch failed