linux/mm
Ravikiran G Thirumalai 413b43deab tmpfs: fix oops on mounts with mpol=default
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>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-24 16:31:21 -07:00
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backing-dev.c flusher: Fix PF_FROZEN race 2009-12-03 13:49:43 +01:00
bootmem.c x86: Make 64 bit use early_res instead of bootmem before slab 2010-02-12 09:41:59 -08:00
bounce.c block: remove some includings of blktrace_api.h 2009-06-16 11:19:36 +02:00
debug-pagealloc.c generic debug pagealloc 2009-04-01 08:59:13 -07:00
dmapool.c dmapools: protect page_list walk in show_pools() 2009-06-30 18:56:00 -07:00
fadvise.c readahead: introduce FMODE_RANDOM for POSIX_FADV_RANDOM 2010-03-06 11:26:25 -08:00
failslab.c failslab: add ability to filter slab caches 2010-02-26 19:19:39 +02:00
filemap_xip.c mm: clean up mm_counter 2010-03-06 11:26:23 -08:00
filemap.c mm: use rlimit helpers 2010-03-06 11:26:24 -08:00
fremap.c mm: clean up mm_counter 2010-03-06 11:26:23 -08:00
highmem.c grammar fix in comment 2010-02-05 12:22:40 +01:00
hugetlb.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2010-03-01 09:15:15 -08:00
hwpoison-inject.c HWPOISON: Don't do early filtering if filter is disabled 2009-12-16 12:20:01 +01:00
init-mm.c mm: consolidate init_mm definition 2009-06-16 19:47:28 -07:00
internal.h HWPOISON: add an interface to switch off/on all the page filters 2009-12-16 12:19:59 +01:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'x86-bootmem-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-03-03 08:15:05 -08:00
Kconfig.debug trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options 2009-09-21 15:14:57 +02:00
kmemcheck.c kmemcheck: add hooks for the page allocator 2009-06-15 15:48:33 +02:00
kmemleak-test.c percpu: clean up percpu variable definitions 2009-06-24 15:13:48 +09:00
kmemleak.c Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6 2009-12-17 16:00:19 -08:00
ksm.c mm/ksm.c is doing an unneeded _notify in write_protect_page. 2010-03-24 16:31:20 -07:00
maccess.c maccess,probe_kernel: Allow arch specific override probe_kernel_(read|write) 2010-01-07 11:58:36 -06:00
madvise.c HWPOISON: Add a madvise() injector for soft page offlining 2009-12-16 12:20:00 +01:00
Makefile make generic_acl slightly more generic 2009-12-16 12:16:49 -05:00
memcontrol.c memcontrol: fix potential null deref 2010-03-24 16:31:19 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mm: introduce dump_page() and print symbolic flag names 2010-03-12 15:52:28 -08:00
memory-failure.c mm: change anon_vma linking to fix multi-process server scalability issue 2010-03-06 11:26:26 -08:00
memory.c mm: introduce dump_page() and print symbolic flag names 2010-03-12 15:52:28 -08:00
mempolicy.c tmpfs: fix oops on mounts with mpol=default 2010-03-24 16:31:21 -07:00
mempool.c mm: remove broken 'kzalloc' mempool 2009-09-22 07:17:35 -07:00
migrate.c mm/migrate.c: kill anon local variable from migrate_page_copy 2010-03-06 11:26:25 -08:00
mincore.c mm: hugetlb: fix hugepage memory leak in mincore() 2009-12-15 08:53:24 -08:00
mlock.c mm: use rlimit helpers 2010-03-06 11:26:24 -08:00
mm_init.c mm: mminit_loglevel cannot be __meminitdata anymore 2008-08-20 15:40:30 -07:00
mmap.c Add generic sys_old_mmap() 2010-03-12 15:52:32 -08:00
mmu_context.c mm: export use_mm/unuse_mm to modules 2010-01-15 01:43:28 -08:00
mmu_notifier.c ksm: add mmu_notifier set_pte_at_notify() 2009-09-22 07:17:31 -07:00
mmzone.c [ARM] Double check memmap is actually valid with a memmap has unexpected holes V2 2009-05-18 11:22:24 +01:00
mprotect.c perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events 2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
mremap.c mm: change anon_vma linking to fix multi-process server scalability issue 2010-03-06 11:26:26 -08:00
msync.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 13 2009-01-14 14:15:23 +01:00
nommu.c nommu: fix an incorrect comment in the do_mmap_shared_file() 2010-03-24 16:31:20 -07:00
oom_kill.c memcg: fix oom kill behavior 2010-03-12 15:52:38 -08:00
page_alloc.c mm: introduce dump_page() and print symbolic flag names 2010-03-12 15:52:28 -08:00
page_cgroup.c memcg: avoid use cmpxchg in swap cgroup maintainance 2010-03-17 18:43:47 -07:00
page_io.c swap: rework map_swap_page() again 2009-12-15 08:53:16 -08:00
page_isolation.c memory hotplug: fix page_zone() calculation in test_pages_isolated() 2008-11-06 15:41:19 -08:00
page-writeback.c writeback: remove unused nonblocking and congestion checks 2009-12-03 13:54:25 +01:00
pagewalk.c mm hugetlb: add hugepage support to pagemap 2009-12-15 08:53:24 -08:00
percpu.c early_res: Add free_early_partial() 2010-02-26 08:25:35 +01:00
prio_tree.c spelling fixes: mm/ 2007-10-20 01:27:18 +02:00
quicklist.c cpumask: use new-style cpumask ops in mm/quicklist. 2009-09-24 09:34:52 +09:30
readahead.c readahead: introduce FMODE_RANDOM for POSIX_FADV_RANDOM 2010-03-06 11:26:25 -08:00
rmap.c vmscan: detect mapped file pages used only once 2010-03-06 11:26:27 -08:00
shmem.c Fix breakage in shmem.c 2009-12-16 19:48:48 -05:00
slab.c Merge branches 'slab/cleanups', 'slab/failslab', 'slab/fixes' and 'slub/percpu' into slab-for-linus 2010-03-04 12:07:50 +02:00
slob.c slab: remove duplicate kmem_cache_init_late() declarations 2009-08-06 11:36:25 +03:00
slub.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2010-03-12 16:04:50 -08:00
sparse-vmemmap.c sparsemem: Put mem map for one node together. 2010-02-12 09:42:38 -08:00
sparse.c sparsemem: Fix compilation on PowerPC 2010-03-01 17:59:24 -08:00
swap_state.c mm: add_to_swap_cache() does not return -EEXIST 2009-09-22 07:17:35 -07:00
swap.c mm: remove free_hot_page() 2010-03-06 11:26:25 -08:00
swapfile.c memcg: move charges of anonymous swap 2010-03-12 15:52:36 -08:00
thrash.c mm: pass mm to grab_swap_token 2009-06-23 12:50:05 -07:00
truncate.c vfs: Fix vmtruncate() regression 2010-01-13 16:09:33 -08:00
util.c nommu: don't need get_unmapped_area() for NOMMU 2010-01-16 12:15:40 -08:00
vmalloc.c mm: purge fragmented percpu vmap blocks 2010-02-02 12:50:47 -08:00
vmscan.c vmscan: detect mapped file pages used only once 2010-03-06 11:26:27 -08:00
vmstat.c mm: restore zone->all_unreclaimable to independence word 2010-03-06 11:26:25 -08:00