Dave reported an oops triggered by trinity:
  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 
0000000000000008
  IP: newseg+0x10d/0x390
  PGD 
cf8c1067 PUD 
cf8c2067 PMD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
  CPU: 2 PID: 7636 Comm: trinity-child2 Not tainted 3.9.0+#67
  ...
  Call Trace:
    ipcget+0x182/0x380
    SyS_shmget+0x5a/0x60
    tracesys+0xdd/0xe2
This bug was introduced by commit 
af73e4d9506d ("hugetlbfs: fix mmap
failure in unaligned size request").
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizfan@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
        if (shmflg & SHM_HUGETLB) {
                struct hstate *hs = hstate_sizelog((shmflg >> SHM_HUGE_SHIFT)
                                                & SHM_HUGE_MASK);
-               size_t hugesize = ALIGN(size, huge_page_size(hs));
+               size_t hugesize;
+
+               if (!hs) {
+                       error = -EINVAL;
+                       goto no_file;
+               }
+               hugesize = ALIGN(size, huge_page_size(hs));
 
                /* hugetlb_file_setup applies strict accounting */
                if (shmflg & SHM_NORESERVE)
 
                        len = ALIGN(len, huge_page_size(hstate_file(file)));
        } else if (flags & MAP_HUGETLB) {
                struct user_struct *user = NULL;
+               struct hstate *hs = hstate_sizelog((flags >> MAP_HUGE_SHIFT) &
+                                                  SHM_HUGE_MASK);
 
-               len = ALIGN(len, huge_page_size(hstate_sizelog(
-                       (flags >> MAP_HUGE_SHIFT) & MAP_HUGE_MASK)));
+               if (!hs)
+                       return -EINVAL;
+
+               len = ALIGN(len, huge_page_size(hs));
                /*
                 * VM_NORESERVE is used because the reservations will be
                 * taken when vm_ops->mmap() is called