From 1c29f4306f557ef5d9ed515ec8881f4d1735b058 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: André Fabian Silva Delgado Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 10:34:19 -0300 Subject: Linux-libre 4.7.5-gnu --- mm/mempolicy.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c index 297d6854f..e68286121 100644 --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -2334,6 +2334,23 @@ 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); -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf