[merged] memcontrol-fix-potential-null-deref.patch removed from -mm tree

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The patch titled
     memcontrol: fix potential null deref
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     memcontrol-fix-potential-null-deref.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/

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Subject: memcontrol: fix potential null deref
From: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>

There was a potential null deref introduced in c62b1a3b31b5 ("memcg: use
generic percpu instead of private implementation").

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 mm/memcontrol.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN mm/memcontrol.c~memcontrol-fix-potential-null-deref mm/memcontrol.c
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c~memcontrol-fix-potential-null-deref
+++ a/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -3691,8 +3691,10 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_all
 	else
 		mem = vmalloc(size);
 
-	if (mem)
-		memset(mem, 0, size);
+	if (!mem)
+		return NULL;
+
+	memset(mem, 0, size);
 	mem->stat = alloc_percpu(struct mem_cgroup_stat_cpu);
 	if (!mem->stat) {
 		if (size < PAGE_SIZE)
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from error27@xxxxxxxxx are

origin.patch
linux-next.patch
acpi_pad-processor_aggregator-name-too-long.patch
power_meter-acpi_device_class-power_meter_resource-too-long.patch
dpt_i20-several-use-after-free-issues.patch
sbshc-acpi_device_class-smbus_host_controller-too-long.patch
backlight-backlight_device_register-return-err_ptr.patch
scsi-remove-superfluous-null-pointer-check-from-scsi_kill_request.patch
iscsi-change-to.patch
musb-potential-use-after-free.patch
dynamic_debug-small-cleanup-in-ddebug_proc_write.patch
sis-strcpy-=-strlcpy.patch
proc-cleanup-remove-unused-assignments.patch

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