Calling prep_and_add_allocated_folios when allocating gigantic pages
at boot time causes the kernel to crash as folio_list is empty
and iterating it causes a NULL pointer dereference. Call this only
for non-gigantic pages when folio_list has entires.
Fixes: bfb41d6b2fe148 ("hugetlb: restructure pool allocations")
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index f3749fc125d4..b12f5fd295bb 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -3397,7 +3397,8 @@ static void __init hugetlb_hstate_alloc_pages(struct hstate *h)
}
/* list will be empty if hstate_is_gigantic */
- prep_and_add_allocated_folios(h, &folio_list);
+ if (!hstate_is_gigantic(h))
+ prep_and_add_allocated_folios(h, &folio_list);
if (i < h->max_huge_pages) {
char buf[32];
--
2.25.1
