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-rw-r--r--mm/mempolicy.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 1763418..3d64b36 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;