mempolicy: ERR_PTR dereference in mpol_shared_policy_init()
The original code called mpol_put(new) while "new" was an ERR_PTR.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 7575101..5d6fb339 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2098,7 +2098,7 @@
/* contextualize the tmpfs mount point mempolicy */
new = mpol_new(mpol->mode, mpol->flags, &mpol->w.user_nodemask);
if (IS_ERR(new))
- goto put_free; /* no valid nodemask intersection */
+ goto free_scratch; /* no valid nodemask intersection */
task_lock(current);
ret = mpol_set_nodemask(new, &mpol->w.user_nodemask, scratch);
@@ -2114,6 +2114,7 @@
put_free:
mpol_put(new); /* drop initial ref */
+free_scratch:
NODEMASK_SCRATCH_FREE(scratch);
}
}