From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. =============== commit cc81717ed3bc6d4f3738d13a1e097437caada0e9 upstream. Commit 11c731e81bb0 ("mm/mempolicy: fix !vma in new_vma_page()") has removed BUG_ON(!vma) from new_vma_page which is partially correct because page_address_in_vma will return EFAULT for non-linear mappings and at least shared shmem might be mapped this way. The patch also tried to prevent NULL ptr for hugetlb pages which is not correct AFAICS because hugetlb pages cannot be mapped as VM_NONLINEAR and other conditions in page_address_in_vma seem to be legit and catch real bugs. This patch restores BUG_ON for PageHuge to catch potential issues when the to-be-migrated page is not setup properly. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- mm/mempolicy.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c index 41a42902ef21..3650036bb910 100644 --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -1200,10 +1200,8 @@ static struct page *new_page(struct page *page, unsigned long start, int **x) } if (PageHuge(page)) { - if (vma) - return alloc_huge_page_noerr(vma, address, 1); - else - return NULL; + BUG_ON(!vma); + return alloc_huge_page_noerr(vma, address, 1); } /* * if !vma, alloc_page_vma() will use task or system default policy -- 2.1.1 -- 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