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authorJianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com>2013-12-18 17:08:59 -0800
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2014-04-02 00:59:00 +0100
commit358c10d5ce93cf7cf3ae6cd66e2e533d680591d5 (patch)
treeb9eea76c1547d3c8fdcb6bbfd2f729e4ed4dff65
parentc725cf148008d81eac7fe4bebff7367ae2aa0aa2 (diff)
mm/hugetlb: check for pte NULL pointer in __page_check_address()
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 <wujianguo@huawei.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: qiuxishi <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Cc: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
-rw-r--r--mm/rmap.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 8685697b88b2..52a2f364f087 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -581,7 +581,11 @@ pte_t *__page_check_address(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm,
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;
}