From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754924AbaC3XwR (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Mar 2014 19:52:17 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:37332 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754711AbaC3Xnl (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Mar 2014 19:43:41 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Kirill A. Shutemov" , "qiuxishi" , "Hanjun Guo" , "Naoya Horiguchi" , "Mel Gorman" , "Jianguo Wu" , "Linus Torvalds" Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 00:23:35 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.2 180/200] mm/hugetlb: check for pte NULL pointer in __page_check_address() In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.4.249 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2.56-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jianguo Wu commit 98398c32f6687ee1e1f3ae084effb4b75adb0747 upstream. In __page_check_address(), if address's pud is not present, huge_pte_offset() will return NULL, we should check the return value. Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: qiuxishi Cc: Hanjun Guo Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- mm/rmap.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/mm/rmap.c +++ b/mm/rmap.c @@ -581,7 +581,11 @@ pte_t *__page_check_address(struct page spinlock_t *ptl; if (unlikely(PageHuge(page))) { + /* when pud is not present, pte will be NULL */ pte = huge_pte_offset(mm, address); + if (!pte) + return NULL; + ptl = &mm->page_table_lock; goto check; }