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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/mempolicy.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c index 1763418f1ada..3d64b369180d 100644 --- a/mm/mempolicy.c +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c @@ -1552,8 +1552,18 @@ struct mempolicy *get_vma_policy(struct task_struct *task, addr); if (vpol) pol = vpol; - } else if (vma->vm_policy) + } else if (vma->vm_policy) { pol = vma->vm_policy; + + /* + * shmem_alloc_page() passes MPOL_F_SHARED policy with + * a pseudo vma whose vma->vm_ops=NULL. Take a reference + * count on these policies which will be dropped by + * mpol_cond_put() later + */ + if (mpol_needs_cond_ref(pol)) + mpol_get(pol); + } } if (!pol) pol = &default_policy; |