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mm/mempolicy.c: fix wrong sp_node insertion
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commit 5ca3957 upstream.

n->end is accessed in sp_insert(). Thus it should be update
before calling sp_insert(). This mistake may make kernel panic.

Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Hillf Danton authored and gregkh committed Mar 14, 2013
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion mm/mempolicy.c
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Expand Up @@ -2386,8 +2386,8 @@ static int shared_policy_replace(struct shared_policy *sp, unsigned long start,
*mpol_new = *n->policy;
atomic_set(&mpol_new->refcnt, 1);
sp_node_init(n_new, n->end, end, mpol_new);
sp_insert(sp, n_new);
n->end = start;
sp_insert(sp, n_new);
n_new = NULL;
mpol_new = NULL;
break;
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