The patch titled memcg: null dereference on allocation failure has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was memcg-null-dereference-on-allocation-failure.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/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: memcg: null dereference on allocation failure From: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> The original code had a null dereference if alloc_percpu() failed. This was introduced in 711d3d2c9bc3 "memcg: cpu hotplug aware percpu count updates" Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 16 +++++++++------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-null-dereference-on-allocation-failure mm/memcontrol.c --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-null-dereference-on-allocation-failure +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -4208,15 +4208,17 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_all memset(mem, 0, size); mem->stat = alloc_percpu(struct mem_cgroup_stat_cpu); - if (!mem->stat) { - if (size < PAGE_SIZE) - kfree(mem); - else - vfree(mem); - mem = NULL; - } + if (!mem->stat) + goto out_free; spin_lock_init(&mem->pcp_counter_lock); return mem; + +out_free: + if (size < PAGE_SIZE) + kfree(mem); + else + vfree(mem); + return NULL; } /* _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from error27@xxxxxxxxx are linux-next.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