This is for sure necessary.
Thanks Mike & Lukas.
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@xxxxxxxxxx>
* Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> [221017 22:49]:
> A memory leak in hugetlb_reserve_pages was reported in [1]. The root
> cause was traced to an error path in mmap_region when mas_preallocate()
> fails. In this case, the vma is freed after a successful call to
> filesystem specific mmap. The hugetlbfs mmap routine may allocate data
> structures pointed to by m_private_data. These need to be cleaned up
> by the hugetlb vm_ops->close() routine.
>
> The same issue was addressed by commit deb0f6562884 ("mm/mmap: undo
> ->mmap() when arch_validate_flags() fails") for the arch_validate_flags()
> test. Go to the same close_and_free_vma label if mas_preallocate() fails.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CAKXUXMxf7OiCwbxib7MwfR4M1b5+b3cNTU7n5NV9Zm4967=FPQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Fixes: d4af56c5c7c6 ("mm: start tracking VMAs with maple tree")
> Reported-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/mmap.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
> index bf2122af94e7..3c9890e443a3 100644
> --- a/mm/mmap.c
> +++ b/mm/mmap.c
> @@ -2681,7 +2681,7 @@ unsigned long mmap_region(struct file *file, unsigned long addr,
> if (mas_preallocate(&mas, vma, GFP_KERNEL)) {
> error = -ENOMEM;
> if (file)
> - goto unmap_and_free_vma;
> + goto close_and_free_vma;
> else
> goto free_vma;
> }
> --
> 2.37.3
>
