mm/page_alloc.c: avoid potential NULL pointer dereference
ac.preferred_zoneref->zone passed to alloc_flags_nofragment() can be NULL. 'zone' pointer unconditionally derefernced in alloc_flags_nofragment(). Bail out on NULL zone to avoid potential crash. Currently we don't see any crashes only because alloc_flags_nofragment() has another bug which allows compiler to optimize away all accesses to 'zone'. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190423120806.3503-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com Fixes: 6bb15450 ("mm, page_alloc: spread allocations across zones before introducing fragmentation") Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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