Re: [PATCH] mm: workingset: fix NULL ptr dereference
From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Mon Apr 09 2018 - 22:42:07 EST
On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 11:33:39AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> @@ -522,7 +532,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(radix_tree_preload);
> */
> int radix_tree_maybe_preload(gfp_t gfp_mask)
> {
> - if (gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp_mask))
> + if (gfpflags_allow_blocking(gfp_mask) && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_ZERO))
> return __radix_tree_preload(gfp_mask, RADIX_TREE_PRELOAD_SIZE);
> /* Preloading doesn't help anything with this gfp mask, skip it */
> preempt_disable();
No, you've completely misunderstood what's going on in this function.