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authorDan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>2010-05-25 23:42:58 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-05-26 08:19:23 -0700
commit0cae3457b1a6e88f31020272bcfd90c178716053 (patch)
tree71cf3f4049e9e80a5dd71219bd74061e8587a643 /mm
parentMerge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 (diff)
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mempolicy: ERR_PTR dereference in mpol_shared_policy_init()
The original code called mpol_put(new) while "new" was an ERR_PTR. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/mempolicy.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 75751012c552..5d6fb339de03 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2098,7 +2098,7 @@ void mpol_shared_policy_init(struct shared_policy *sp, struct mempolicy *mpol)
/* contextualize the tmpfs mount point mempolicy */
new = mpol_new(mpol->mode, mpol->flags, &mpol->w.user_nodemask);
if (IS_ERR(new))
- goto put_free; /* no valid nodemask intersection */
+ goto free_scratch; /* no valid nodemask intersection */
task_lock(current);
ret = mpol_set_nodemask(new, &mpol->w.user_nodemask, scratch);
@@ -2114,6 +2114,7 @@ void mpol_shared_policy_init(struct shared_policy *sp, struct mempolicy *mpol)
put_free:
mpol_put(new); /* drop initial ref */
+free_scratch:
NODEMASK_SCRATCH_FREE(scratch);
}
}