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diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index d8c4e38fb5f4..2da72a5b6ecc 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2336,6 +2336,23 @@ out:
return ret;
}
+/*
+ * Drop the (possibly final) reference to task->mempolicy. It needs to be
+ * dropped after task->mempolicy is set to NULL so that any allocation done as
+ * part of its kmem_cache_free(), such as by KASAN, doesn't reference a freed
+ * policy.
+ */
+void mpol_put_task_policy(struct task_struct *task)
+{
+ struct mempolicy *pol;
+
+ task_lock(task);
+ pol = task->mempolicy;
+ task->mempolicy = NULL;
+ task_unlock(task);
+ mpol_put(pol);
+}
+
static void sp_delete(struct shared_policy *sp, struct sp_node *n)
{
pr_debug("deleting %lx-l%lx\n", n->start, n->end);