mm/hugetlb.c: add NULL check of return value of huge_pte_offset
authorNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Mon, 7 Apr 2014 22:36:54 +0000 (15:36 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 7 Apr 2014 23:35:49 +0000 (16:35 -0700)
huge_pte_offset() could return NULL, so we need NULL check to avoid
potential NULL pointer dereferences.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/hugetlb.c

index 7c02b9dadfb05b28e2aef363523f021f933bdb6d..6cddfadaba03887b3fd44a8ed654ccaadd295192 100644 (file)
@@ -2690,7 +2690,8 @@ retry_avoidcopy:
                                BUG_ON(huge_pte_none(pte));
                                spin_lock(ptl);
                                ptep = huge_pte_offset(mm, address & huge_page_mask(h));
-                               if (likely(pte_same(huge_ptep_get(ptep), pte)))
+                               if (likely(ptep &&
+                                          pte_same(huge_ptep_get(ptep), pte)))
                                        goto retry_avoidcopy;
                                /*
                                 * race occurs while re-acquiring page table
@@ -2734,7 +2735,7 @@ retry_avoidcopy:
         */
        spin_lock(ptl);
        ptep = huge_pte_offset(mm, address & huge_page_mask(h));
-       if (likely(pte_same(huge_ptep_get(ptep), pte))) {
+       if (likely(ptep && pte_same(huge_ptep_get(ptep), pte))) {
                ClearPagePrivate(new_page);
 
                /* Break COW */