1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index c6c61ea6bb8c..8924aaf4665c 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1262,7 +1262,7 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_mbind(compat_ulong_t start, compat_ulong_t len,
  * @task != current].  It is the caller's responsibility to
  * free the reference in these cases.
  */
-static struct mempolicy * get_vma_policy(struct task_struct *task,
+static struct mempolicy *get_vma_policy(struct task_struct *task,
                 struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr)
 {
         struct mempolicy *pol = task->mempolicy;
@@ -1270,7 +1270,10 @@ static struct mempolicy * get_vma_policy(struct task_struct *task,
 
         if (vma) {
                 if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->get_policy) {
-                        pol = vma->vm_ops->get_policy(vma, addr);
+                        struct mempolicy *vpol = vma->vm_ops->get_policy(vma,
+                                                                        addr);
+                        if (vpol)
+                                pol = vpol;
                         shared_pol = 1; /* if pol non-NULL, add ref below */
                 } else if (vma->vm_policy &&
                                 vma->vm_policy->policy != MPOL_DEFAULT)