memcg: fix prepare migration

If a signal is pending (task being killed by sigkill)
__mem_cgroup_try_charge will write NULL into &mem, and css_put will oops
on null pointer dereference.

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010
  IP: [<ffffffff810fc6cc>] mem_cgroup_prepare_migration+0x7c/0xc0
  PGD a5d89067 PUD a5d8a067 PMD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  last sysfs file: /sys/devices/platform/microcode/firmware/microcode/loading
  CPU 0
  Modules linked in: nfs lockd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss sunrpc acpi_cpufreq pcspkr sg [last unloaded: microcode]

  Pid: 5299, comm: largepages Tainted: G        W  2.6.34-rc3 #3 Penryn1600SLI-110dB/To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810fc6cc>]  [<ffffffff810fc6cc>] mem_cgroup_prepare_migration+0x7c/0xc0

[nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp: fix merge issues]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index f4ede99c8b9b5671841021afe04d82bd32dfbda0..6c755de385f73e9f681fdedea1c48b7481180eaa 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2429,11 +2429,11 @@ int mem_cgroup_prepare_migration(struct page *page, struct mem_cgroup **ptr)
        }
        unlock_page_cgroup(pc);
 
+       *ptr = mem;
        if (mem) {
-               ret = __mem_cgroup_try_charge(NULL, GFP_KERNEL, &mem, false);
+               ret = __mem_cgroup_try_charge(NULL, GFP_KERNEL, ptr, false);
                css_put(&mem->css);
        }
-       *ptr = mem;
        return ret;
 }