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authorPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2016-09-25 23:23:57 +0200
committerPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>2016-09-25 23:34:19 +0200
commitf20fbc0717f9f007c94b2641134b19228d0ce9ed (patch)
tree1404248ebbec552a3fb7928b75322b65d74de1bd /mm/mempolicy.c
parent8cb2a7d5667ab9a9c2fdd356357b85b63b320901 (diff)
parentfe0acb5fcb7fe8cb3d68bbdb8459865c972d8f83 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
Conflicts: net/netfilter/core.c net/netfilter/nf_tables_netdev.c Resolve two conflicts before pull request for David's net-next tree: 1) Between c73c24849011 ("netfilter: nf_tables_netdev: remove redundant ip_hdr assignment") from the net tree and commit ddc8b6027ad0 ("netfilter: introduce nft_set_pktinfo_{ipv4, ipv6}_validate()"). 2) Between e8bffe0cf964 ("net: Add _nf_(un)register_hooks symbols") and Aaron Conole's patches to replace list_head with single linked list. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mempolicy.c')
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diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index d8c4e38fb5f4..2da72a5b6ecc 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2336,6 +2336,23 @@ out:
return ret;
}
+/*
+ * Drop the (possibly final) reference to task->mempolicy. It needs to be
+ * dropped after task->mempolicy is set to NULL so that any allocation done as
+ * part of its kmem_cache_free(), such as by KASAN, doesn't reference a freed
+ * policy.
+ */
+void mpol_put_task_policy(struct task_struct *task)
+{
+ struct mempolicy *pol;
+
+ task_lock(task);
+ pol = task->mempolicy;
+ task->mempolicy = NULL;
+ task_unlock(task);
+ mpol_put(pol);
+}
+
static void sp_delete(struct shared_policy *sp, struct sp_node *n)
{
pr_debug("deleting %lx-l%lx\n", n->start, n->end);