The patch titled oom: fix NULL pointer dereference has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is oom-fix-null-pointer-dereference.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: oom: fix NULL pointer dereference From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit b940fd7035 (oom: remove unnecessary code and cleanup) added unnecessary NULL pointer dereference. remove it. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/oom_kill.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/oom_kill.c~oom-fix-null-pointer-dereference mm/oom_kill.c --- a/mm/oom_kill.c~oom-fix-null-pointer-dereference +++ a/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -401,10 +401,9 @@ static void dump_header(struct task_stru static int oom_kill_task(struct task_struct *p, struct mem_cgroup *mem) { p = find_lock_task_mm(p); - if (!p) { - task_unlock(p); + if (!p) return 1; - } + pr_err("Killed process %d (%s) total-vm:%lukB, anon-rss:%lukB, file-rss:%lukB\n", task_pid_nr(p), p->comm, K(p->mm->total_vm), K(get_mm_counter(p->mm, MM_ANONPAGES)), _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are oom-fix-null-pointer-dereference.patch oom-fix-tasklist_lock-leak.patch security-add-const-to-security_task_setscheduler.patch sched-make-sched_param-argument-static-variables-in-some-sched_setscheduler-caller.patch vmscan-do-not-writeback-filesystem-pages-in-direct-reclaim.patch vmscan-kick-flusher-threads-to-clean-pages-when-reclaim-is-encountering-dirty-pages.patch reiser4.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html