The patch titled
Subject: mm/vmpressure.c: free the same pointer we allocated
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-vmpressure-pass-through-notification-support-fix.patch
This patch was dropped because it was folded into mm-vmpressure-pass-through-notification-support.patch
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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/vmpressure.c: free the same pointer we allocated
We keep incrementing "spec" as we parse the args so we end up calling
kfree() on a modified of spec. It probably works or this would have been
caught in testing, but it looks weird.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170613191820.GA20003@elgon.mountain
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmpressure.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/vmpressure.c~mm-vmpressure-pass-through-notification-support-fix mm/vmpressure.c
--- a/mm/vmpressure.c~mm-vmpressure-pass-through-notification-support-fix
+++ a/mm/vmpressure.c
@@ -386,11 +386,11 @@ int vmpressure_register_event(struct mem
struct vmpressure_event *ev;
enum vmpressure_modes mode = VMPRESSURE_NO_PASSTHROUGH;
enum vmpressure_levels level = -1;
- char *spec = NULL;
+ char *spec, *spec_orig;
char *token;
int ret = 0;
- spec = kzalloc(MAX_VMPRESSURE_ARGS_LEN + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+ spec_orig = spec = kzalloc(MAX_VMPRESSURE_ARGS_LEN + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!spec) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ int vmpressure_register_event(struct mem
list_add(&ev->node, &vmpr->events);
mutex_unlock(&vmpr->events_lock);
out:
- kfree(spec);
+ kfree(spec_orig);
return ret;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are
mm-vmpressure-pass-through-notification-support.patch
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