Merge branch 'akpm' (fixes from Andrew Morton)

Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton.

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (22 commits)
  pidns: fix free_pid() to handle the first fork failure
  ipc,msg: prevent race with rmid in msgsnd,msgrcv
  ipc/sem.c: update sem_otime for all operations
  mm/hwpoison: fix the lack of one reference count against poisoned page
  mm/hwpoison: fix false report on 2nd attempt at page recovery
  mm/hwpoison: fix test for a transparent huge page
  mm/hwpoison: fix traversal of hugetlbfs pages to avoid printk flood
  block: change config option name for cmdline partition parsing
  mm/mlock.c: prevent walking off the end of a pagetable in no-pmd configuration
  mm: avoid reinserting isolated balloon pages into LRU lists
  arch/parisc/mm/fault.c: fix uninitialized variable usage
  include/asm-generic/vtime.h: avoid zero-length file
  nilfs2: fix issue with race condition of competition between segments for dirty blocks
  Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: replace kernelcore with Movable
  mm/bounce.c: fix a regression where MS_SNAP_STABLE (stable pages snapshotting) was ignored
  kernel/kmod.c: check for NULL in call_usermodehelper_exec()
  ipc/sem.c: synchronize the proc interface
  ipc/sem.c: optimize sem_lock()
  ipc/sem.c: fix race in sem_lock()
  mm/compaction.c: periodically schedule when freeing pages
  ...

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index fb326365b694..b086006c59e7 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -571,6 +571,10 @@ int call_usermodehelper_exec(struct subprocess_info *sub_info, int wait)
 	DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(done);
 	int retval = 0;
 
+	if (!sub_info->path) {
+		call_usermodehelper_freeinfo(sub_info);
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
 	helper_lock();
 	if (!khelper_wq || usermodehelper_disabled) {
 		retval = -EBUSY;