From: Dean Roe Subject: Prevent NULL pointer deref in grab_swap_token References: 159260 Patch-mainline: not yet grab_swap_token() assumes that the current process has an mm struct, which is not true for kernel threads invoking get_user_pages(). Since this should be extremely rare, just return from grab_swap_token() without doing anything. Signed-off-by: Dean Roe Acked-by: mason@suse.de Acked-by: okir@suse.de mm/thrash.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/mm/thrash.c +++ b/mm/thrash.c @@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ void grab_swap_token(struct mm_struct *m int current_interval; global_faults++; + if (mm == NULL) + return; + current_interval = global_faults - mm->faultstamp;