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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2010-01-08 17:42:39 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-01-11 12:34:04 -0500
commit129182e5626972ac0df85d43a36dd46ad61c64e1 (patch)
treec91d17c697aa29d284dbe065423e01ca7020db73 /mm
parent8767ba2796a1c894e6d9524584a26a8224f0543d (diff)
percpu: avoid calling __pcpu_ptr_to_addr(NULL)
__pcpu_ptr_to_addr() can be overridden by the architecture and might not behave well if passed a NULL pointer. So avoid calling it until we have verified that its arg is not NULL. Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/percpu.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/percpu.c b/mm/percpu.c
index 442010cc91c6..083e7c91e5f6 100644
--- a/mm/percpu.c
+++ b/mm/percpu.c
@@ -1271,7 +1271,7 @@ static void pcpu_reclaim(struct work_struct *work)
1271 */ 1271 */
1272void free_percpu(void *ptr) 1272void free_percpu(void *ptr)
1273{ 1273{
1274 void *addr = __pcpu_ptr_to_addr(ptr); 1274 void *addr;
1275 struct pcpu_chunk *chunk; 1275 struct pcpu_chunk *chunk;
1276 unsigned long flags; 1276 unsigned long flags;
1277 int off; 1277 int off;
@@ -1279,6 +1279,8 @@ void free_percpu(void *ptr)
1279 if (!ptr) 1279 if (!ptr)
1280 return; 1280 return;
1281 1281
1282 addr = __pcpu_ptr_to_addr(ptr);
1283
1282 spin_lock_irqsave(&pcpu_lock, flags); 1284 spin_lock_irqsave(&pcpu_lock, flags);
1283 1285
1284 chunk = pcpu_chunk_addr_search(addr); 1286 chunk = pcpu_chunk_addr_search(addr);