Re: [PATCH] mm: workingset: fix NULL ptr dereference

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Mon Apr 09 2018 - 22:59:15 EST


On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 07:41:52PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 11:33:39AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> > @@ -522,7 +532,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(radix_tree_preload);
> > */
> > int radix_tree_maybe_preload(gfp_t gfp_mask)
> > {
> > - if (gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp_mask))
> > + if (gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp_mask) && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_ZERO))
> > return __radix_tree_preload(gfp_mask, RADIX_TREE_PRELOAD_SIZE);
> > /* Preloading doesn't help anything with this gfp mask, skip it */
> > preempt_disable();
>
> No, you've completely misunderstood what's going on in this function.

Okay, I hope this version clear current concerns.