Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mm: fix vma->anon_name memory leak for anonymous shmem VMAs

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On Wed,  4 Jan 2023 16:02:40 -0800 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> free_anon_vma_name() is missing a check for anonymous shmem VMA which
> leads to a memory leak due to refcount not being dropped.  Fix this by
> calling anon_vma_name_put() unconditionally. It will free vma->anon_name
> whenever it's non-NULL.
> 
> Fixes: d09e8ca6cb93 ("mm: anonymous shared memory naming")

A cc:stable is appropriate here, yes?



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