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cgroup/cpuset: Prevent NULL pointer access in free_tmpmasks()

Commit 5806b3d05165 ("cpuset: decouple tmpmasks and cpumasks freeing in
cgroup") separates out the freeing of tmpmasks into a new free_tmpmask()
helper but removes the NULL pointer check in the process. Unfortunately a
NULL pointer can be passed to free_tmpmasks() in cpuset_handle_hotplug()
if cpuset v1 is active. This can cause segmentation fault and crash
the kernel.

Fix that by adding the NULL pointer check to free_tmpmasks().

Fixes: 5806b3d05165 ("cpuset: decouple tmpmasks and cpumasks freeing in cgroup")
Reported-by: Ashay Jaiswal <quic_ashayj@quicinc.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250902-cpuset-free-on-condition-v1-1-f46ffab53eac@quicinc.com/
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

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Waiman Long and committed by
Tejun Heo e117ff11 3b0dec68

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kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
··· 484 484 */ 485 485 static inline void free_tmpmasks(struct tmpmasks *tmp) 486 486 { 487 + if (!tmp) 488 + return; 489 + 487 490 free_cpumask_var(tmp->new_cpus); 488 491 free_cpumask_var(tmp->addmask); 489 492 free_cpumask_var(tmp->delmask);