memcg: fix prepare migration
authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:17:39 +0000 (13:17 -0400)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:31:24 +0000 (11:31 -0700)
commit93d5c9be1ddd57d4063ce463c9ac2be1e5ee14f1
tree65455c40ec8c701789d8f16b825e5c290633c910
parentcac36f707119b792b2396aed371d6b5cdc194890
memcg: fix prepare migration

If a signal is pending (task being killed by sigkill)
__mem_cgroup_try_charge will write NULL into &mem, and css_put will oops
on null pointer dereference.

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010
  IP: [<ffffffff810fc6cc>] mem_cgroup_prepare_migration+0x7c/0xc0
  PGD a5d89067 PUD a5d8a067 PMD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  last sysfs file: /sys/devices/platform/microcode/firmware/microcode/loading
  CPU 0
  Modules linked in: nfs lockd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss sunrpc acpi_cpufreq pcspkr sg [last unloaded: microcode]

  Pid: 5299, comm: largepages Tainted: G        W  2.6.34-rc3 #3 Penryn1600SLI-110dB/To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810fc6cc>]  [<ffffffff810fc6cc>] mem_cgroup_prepare_migration+0x7c/0xc0

[nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp: fix merge issues]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/memcontrol.c