mm/hugetlb.c: add NULL check of return value of huge_pte_offset
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>
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 7c02b9d..6cddfad 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -2690,7 +2690,8 @@
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 @@
*/
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 */
