The patch titled mm/mempolicy.c: check return code of check_range has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-mempolicy-check-return-code-of-check_range.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: mm/mempolicy.c: check return code of check_range From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@xxxxxxxxx> Function check_range may return ERR_PTR(...). Check for it. Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mempolicy.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/mempolicy.c~mm-mempolicy-check-return-code-of-check_range mm/mempolicy.c --- a/mm/mempolicy.c~mm-mempolicy-check-return-code-of-check_range +++ a/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -924,12 +924,15 @@ static int migrate_to_node(struct mm_str nodemask_t nmask; LIST_HEAD(pagelist); int err = 0; + struct vm_area_struct *vma; nodes_clear(nmask); node_set(source, nmask); - check_range(mm, mm->mmap->vm_start, mm->task_size, &nmask, + vma = check_range(mm, mm->mmap->vm_start, mm->task_size, &nmask, flags | MPOL_MF_DISCONTIG_OK, &pagelist); + if (IS_ERR(vma)) + return PTR_ERR(vma); if (!list_empty(&pagelist)) err = migrate_pages(&pagelist, new_node_page, dest, 0); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from segooon@xxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch md-check-return-code-of-read_sb_page.patch mm-mempolicy-check-return-code-of-check_range.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