From 413b43deab8377819aba1dbad2abf0c15d59b491 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:35:28 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/mempolicy.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c index 643f66e..745ce90 100644 --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -2215,10 +2215,15 @@ int mpol_parse_str(char *str, struct mempolicy **mpol, int no_context) goto out; mode = MPOL_PREFERRED; break; - + case MPOL_DEFAULT: + /* + * Insist on a empty nodelist + */ + if (!nodelist) + err = 0; + goto out; /* * case MPOL_BIND: mpol_new() enforces non-empty nodemask. - * case MPOL_DEFAULT: mpol_new() enforces empty nodemask, ignores flags. */ } -- 2.7.4