It's possible that kcompactd_run could fail to run kcompactd for a hot added node and leave pgdat->kcompactd as NULL. So pgdat->kcompactd should be checked here to avoid possible NULL pointer dereference. Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/compaction.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c index 562f274b2c51..82c54d70a978 100644 --- a/mm/compaction.c +++ b/mm/compaction.c @@ -3052,7 +3052,8 @@ static int kcompactd_cpu_online(unsigned int cpu) if (cpumask_any_and(cpu_online_mask, mask) < nr_cpu_ids) /* One of our CPUs online: restore mask */ - set_cpus_allowed_ptr(pgdat->kcompactd, mask); + if (pgdat->kcompactd) + set_cpus_allowed_ptr(pgdat->kcompactd, mask); } return 0; } -- 2.23.0
