This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mm/huge_memory.c: fix potential NULL pointer dereference to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mm-huge_memory.c-fix-potential-null-pointer-dereference.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a8f531ebc33052642b4bd7b812eedf397108ce64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Libin <huawei.libin@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:20:38 -0700 Subject: mm/huge_memory.c: fix potential NULL pointer dereference From: Libin <huawei.libin@xxxxxxxxxx> commit a8f531ebc33052642b4bd7b812eedf397108ce64 upstream. In collapse_huge_page() there is a race window between releasing the mmap_sem read lock and taking the mmap_sem write lock, so find_vma() may return NULL. So check the return value to avoid NULL pointer dereference. collapse_huge_page khugepaged_alloc_page up_read(&mm->mmap_sem) down_write(&mm->mmap_sem) vma = find_vma(mm, address) Signed-off-by: Libin <huawei.libin@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/huge_memory.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -1894,6 +1894,8 @@ static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm goto out; vma = find_vma(mm, address); + if (!vma) + goto out; hstart = (vma->vm_start + ~HPAGE_PMD_MASK) & HPAGE_PMD_MASK; hend = vma->vm_end & HPAGE_PMD_MASK; if (address < hstart || address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE > hend) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from huawei.libin@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.4/mm-huge_memory.c-fix-potential-null-pointer-dereference.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html