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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2016-09-26 15:47:03 -0400
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2016-09-26 15:47:03 -0400
commit1e1b37273cf719545da50b76f214f983a710aaf4 (patch)
tree033f6062325ef7aaeefe8559bb409ab7d2be3c76 /mm/mempolicy.c
parentc183a603e8d8a5a189729b77d0c623a3d5950e5f (diff)
parentc291b015158577be533dd5a959dfc09bab119eed (diff)
Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/apic
Bring in the upstream modifications so we can fixup the silent merge conflict which is introduced by this merge. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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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);