The patch titled
Subject: mempolicy-fix-a-memory-corruption-by-refcount-imbalance-in-alloc_pages_vma-v2
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mempolicy-fix-a-memory-corruption-by-refcount-imbalance-in-alloc_pages_vma-v2.patch
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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Subject: mempolicy-fix-a-memory-corruption-by-refcount-imbalance-in-alloc_pages_vma-v2
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/mempolicy.c | 5 +----
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/mempolicy.c~mempolicy-fix-a-memory-corruption-by-refcount-imbalance-in-alloc_pages_vma-v2 mm/mempolicy.c
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c~mempolicy-fix-a-memory-corruption-by-refcount-imbalance-in-alloc_pages_vma-v2
+++ a/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1545,16 +1545,13 @@ struct mempolicy *get_vma_policy(struct
struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr)
{
struct mempolicy *pol = task->mempolicy;
- int got_ref;
if (vma) {
if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->get_policy) {
struct mempolicy *vpol = vma->vm_ops->get_policy(vma,
addr);
- if (vpol) {
+ if (vpol)
pol = vpol;
- got_ref = 1;
- }
} else if (vma->vm_policy) {
pol = vma->vm_policy;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mgorman@xxxxxxx are
origin.patch
mm-hugetlbfs-correctly-populate-shared-pmd.patch
netvm-check-for-page-==-null-when-propagating-the-skb-pfmemalloc-flag.patch
mm-correct-page-pfmemalloc-to-fix-deactivate_slab-regression.patch
mm-have-order-0-compaction-start-near-a-pageblock-with-free-pages-v2.patch
mm-compaction-abort-async-compaction-if-locks-are-contended-or-taking-too-long-v2.patch
linux-next.patch
mm-remove-__gfp_no_kswapd.patch
mm-compaction-update-comment-in-try_to_compact_pages.patch
mm-vmscan-scale-number-of-pages-reclaimed-by-reclaim-compaction-based-on-failures.patch
mm-compaction-capture-a-suitable-high-order-page-immediately-when-it-is-made-available.patch
revert-mm-mempolicy-let-vma_merge-and-vma_split-handle-vma-vm_policy-linkages.patch
mempolicy-remove-mempolicy-sharing.patch
mempolicy-fix-a-race-in-shared_policy_replace.patch
mempolicy-fix-refcount-leak-in-mpol_set_shared_policy.patch
mempolicy-fix-a-memory-corruption-by-refcount-imbalance-in-alloc_pages_vma.patch
mempolicy-fix-a-memory-corruption-by-refcount-imbalance-in-alloc_pages_vma-v2.patch
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