linux-kernel - [PATCH 09/12] mm: compaction: avoid possible NULL pointer dereference in kcompactd_cpu

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Date:   Mon, 18 Apr 2022 22:12:50 +0800
From:   Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
To:     <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:     <vbabka@...e.cz>, <pintu@...eaurora.org>,
        <charante@...eaurora.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
Subject: [PATCH 09/12] mm: compaction: avoid possible NULL pointer dereference in kcompactd_cpu_online

It's possible that kcompactd_run could fail to run kcompactd for a hot
added node and leave pgdat->kcompactd as NULL. So pgdat->kcompactd should
be checked here to avoid possible NULL pointer dereference.

Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
---
 mm/compaction.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 562f274b2c51..82c54d70a978 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -3052,7 +3052,8 @@ static int kcompactd_cpu_online(unsigned int cpu)
 
 		if (cpumask_any_and(cpu_online_mask, mask) < nr_cpu_ids)
 			/* One of our CPUs online: restore mask */
-			set_cpus_allowed_ptr(pgdat->kcompactd, mask);
+			if (pgdat->kcompactd)
+				set_cpus_allowed_ptr(pgdat->kcompactd, mask);
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.23.0