2.6.27-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

commit 800416f799e0723635ac2d720ad4449917a1481c upstream.

When a node contains only HighMem memory, slab_node(MPOL_BIND)
dereferences a NULL pointer.

[ This code seems to go back all the way to commit 19770b32609b: "mm:
  filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask".  Which was back in
  April 2008, and it got merged into 2.6.26.  - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 mm/mempolicy.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1404,7 +1404,7 @@ unsigned slab_node(struct mempolicy *pol
 		(void)first_zones_zonelist(zonelist, highest_zoneidx,
 							&policy->v.nodes,
 							&zone);
-		return zone->node;
+		return zone ? zone->node : numa_node_id();
 	}
 
 	default:


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