Merge tag 'v5.7-rc7' into efi/core, to refresh the branch and pick up fixes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index a558da9e7177..281c00129a2e 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -2112,8 +2112,16 @@ static void cmp_and_merge_page(struct page *page, struct rmap_item *rmap_item)
 
 		down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 		vma = find_mergeable_vma(mm, rmap_item->address);
-		err = try_to_merge_one_page(vma, page,
-					    ZERO_PAGE(rmap_item->address));
+		if (vma) {
+			err = try_to_merge_one_page(vma, page,
+					ZERO_PAGE(rmap_item->address));
+		} else {
+			/*
+			 * If the vma is out of date, we do not need to
+			 * continue.
+			 */
+			err = 0;
+		}
 		up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 		/*
 		 * In case of failure, the page was not really empty, so we