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mm: fix NULL ptr dereference in move_pages

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Commit 3268c63 ("mm: fix move/migrate_pages() race on task struct") has
added an odd construct where 'mm' is checked for being NULL, and if it is,
it would get dereferenced anyways by mput()ing it.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Sasha Levin 2012-04-25 16:01:53 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent f2a9ef8807
commit 6e8b09eaf2
1 changed files with 8 additions and 8 deletions
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@ -1388,14 +1388,14 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE6(move_pages, pid_t, pid, unsigned long, nr_pages,
mm = get_task_mm(task);
put_task_struct(task);
if (mm) {
if (nodes)
err = do_pages_move(mm, task_nodes, nr_pages, pages,
nodes, status, flags);
else
err = do_pages_stat(mm, nr_pages, pages, status);
} else
err = -EINVAL;
if (!mm)
return -EINVAL;
if (nodes)
err = do_pages_move(mm, task_nodes, nr_pages, pages,
nodes, status, flags);
else
err = do_pages_stat(mm, nr_pages, pages, status);
mmput(mm);
return err;