The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm: compaction: avoid possible NULL pointer dereference in kcompactd_cpu_online
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-compaction-avoid-possible-null-pointer-dereference-in-kcompactd_cpu_online.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mm-stable
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From: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: compaction: avoid possible NULL pointer dereference in kcompactd_cpu_online
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.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220418141253.24298-10-linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Charan Teja Kalla <charante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pintu Kumar <pintu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/compaction.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/compaction.c~mm-compaction-avoid-possible-null-pointer-dereference-in-kcompactd_cpu_online
+++ a/mm/compaction.c
@@ -3052,7 +3052,8 @@ static int kcompactd_cpu_online(unsigned
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;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx are
mm-swapfile-unuse_pte-can-map-random-data-if-swap-read-fails.patch
mm-swapfile-fix-lost-swap-bits-in-unuse_pte.patch
mm-migration-reduce-the-rcu-lock-duration.patch
mm-migration-remove-unneeded-lock-page-and-pagemovable-check.patch
mm-migration-return-errno-when-isolate_huge_page-failed.patch
mm-migration-fix-potential-pte_unmap-on-an-not-mapped-pte.patch
mm-vmscan-take-min_slab_pages-into-account-when-try-to-call-shrink_node.patch
mm-vmscan-add-a-comment-about-madv_free-pages-check-in-folio_check_dirty_writeback.patch
mm-vmscan-introduce-helper-function-reclaim_page_list.patch
mm-vmscan-take-all-base-pages-of-thp-into-account-when-race-with-speculative-reference.patch
mm-vmscan-remove-obsolete-comment-in-kswapd_run.patch
mm-vmscan-use-helper-folio_is_file_lru.patch
mm-vmscan-use-helper-folio_is_file_lru-fix.patch
mm-z3fold-fix-sheduling-while-atomic.patch
mm-z3fold-fix-possible-null-pointer-dereferencing.patch
mm-z3fold-remove-buggy-use-of-stale-list-for-allocation.patch
mm-z3fold-throw-warning-on-failure-of-trylock_page-in-z3fold_alloc.patch
revert-mm-z3foldc-allow-__gfp_highmem-in-z3fold_alloc.patch
mm-z3fold-put-z3fold-page-back-into-unbuddied-list-when-reclaim-or-migration-fails.patch
mm-z3fold-always-clear-page_claimed-under-z3fold-page-lock.patch
mm-z3fold-fix-z3fold_reclaim_page-races-with-z3fold_free.patch
mm-z3fold-fix-z3fold_page_migrate-races-with-z3fold_map.patch
mm-swap-use-helper-is_swap_pte-in-swap_vma_readahead.patch
mm-swap-use-helper-macro-__attr_rw.patch
mm-swap-fold-__swap_info_get-into-its-sole-caller.patch
mm-swap-remove-unneeded-return-value-of-free_swap_slot.patch
mm-swap-print-bad-swap-offset-entry-in-get_swap_device.patch
mm-swap-remove-buggy-cache-nr-check-in-refill_swap_slots_cache.patch
mm-swap-remove-unneeded-p-=-null-check-in-__swap_duplicate.patch
mm-swap-make-page_swapcount-and-__lru_add_drain_all.patch
mm-swap-avoid-calling-swp_swap_info-when-try-to-check-swp_stable_writes.patch
mm-swap-add-helper-swap_offset_available.patch
mm-swap-fix-the-obsolete-comment-for-swp_type_shift.patch
mm-swap-clean-up-the-comment-of-find_next_to_unuse.patch
mm-swap-fix-the-comment-of-get_kernel_pages.patch
mm-swap-fix-comment-about-swap-extent.patch
