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| author | Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> | 2010-03-23 13:35:28 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2010-04-01 15:52:27 -0700 |
| commit | 6af438190daa4b53c1570c09244f99f2db447f78 (patch) | |
| tree | 6b5c31f020957509f67a764438f714676f087632 /Documentation/basic_profiling.txt | |
| parent | 68cd8670ee25e0d6b0a7472672dcd3843f70a1c6 (diff) | |
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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