diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index bceec84b1331..1c849f4f2e74 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: b22d127a39ddd10d93deee3d96e643657ad53a49
+refs/heads/master: 63f74ca21f1fad36d075e063f06dcc6d39fe86b2
diff --git a/trunk/mm/mempolicy.c b/trunk/mm/mempolicy.c
index b2f12ecc1b34..1763418f1ada 100644
--- a/trunk/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/trunk/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2157,12 +2157,17 @@ mpol_shared_policy_lookup(struct shared_policy *sp, unsigned long idx)
 	return pol;
 }
 
+static void sp_free(struct sp_node *n)
+{
+	mpol_put(n->policy);
+	kmem_cache_free(sn_cache, n);
+}
+
 static void sp_delete(struct shared_policy *sp, struct sp_node *n)
 {
 	pr_debug("deleting %lx-l%lx\n", n->start, n->end);
 	rb_erase(&n->nd, &sp->root);
-	mpol_put(n->policy);
-	kmem_cache_free(sn_cache, n);
+	sp_free(n);
 }
 
 static struct sp_node *sp_alloc(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
@@ -2301,7 +2306,7 @@ int mpol_set_shared_policy(struct shared_policy *info,
 	}
 	err = shared_policy_replace(info, vma->vm_pgoff, vma->vm_pgoff+sz, new);
 	if (err && new)
-		kmem_cache_free(sn_cache, new);
+		sp_free(new);
 	return err;
 }
 
@@ -2318,9 +2323,7 @@ void mpol_free_shared_policy(struct shared_policy *p)
 	while (next) {
 		n = rb_entry(next, struct sp_node, nd);
 		next = rb_next(&n->nd);
-		rb_erase(&n->nd, &p->root);
-		mpol_put(n->policy);
-		kmem_cache_free(sn_cache, n);
+		sp_delete(p, n);
 	}
 	mutex_unlock(&p->mutex);
 }