The patch titled Subject: mm: fix nr_rotate_swap leak in swapon() error case has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-fix-nr_rotate_swap-leak-in-swapon-error-case.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-fix-nr_rotate_swap-leak-in-swapon-error-case.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-fix-nr_rotate_swap-leak-in-swapon-error-case.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxx> Subject: mm: fix nr_rotate_swap leak in swapon() error case If swapon() fails after incrementing nr_rotate_swap, we don't decrement it and thus effectively leak it. Make sure we decrement it if we incremented it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b6fe6b879f17fa68eee6cbd876f459f6e5e33495.1526491581.git.osandov@xxxxxx Fixes: 81a0298bdfab ("mm, swap: don't use VMA based swap readahead if HDD is used as swap") Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/swapfile.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/swapfile.c~mm-fix-nr_rotate_swap-leak-in-swapon-error-case mm/swapfile.c --- a/mm/swapfile.c~mm-fix-nr_rotate_swap-leak-in-swapon-error-case +++ a/mm/swapfile.c @@ -3112,6 +3112,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __use unsigned long *frontswap_map = NULL; struct page *page = NULL; struct inode *inode = NULL; + bool inced_nr_rotate_swap = false; if (swap_flags & ~SWAP_FLAGS_VALID) return -EINVAL; @@ -3215,8 +3216,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __use cluster = per_cpu_ptr(p->percpu_cluster, cpu); cluster_set_null(&cluster->index); } - } else + } else { atomic_inc(&nr_rotate_swap); + inced_nr_rotate_swap = true; + } error = swap_cgroup_swapon(p->type, maxpages); if (error) @@ -3307,6 +3310,8 @@ bad_swap: vfree(swap_map); kvfree(cluster_info); kvfree(frontswap_map); + if (inced_nr_rotate_swap) + atomic_dec(&nr_rotate_swap); if (swap_file) { if (inode && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) { inode_unlock(inode); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from osandov@xxxxxx are mm-fix-nr_rotate_swap-leak-in-swapon-error-case.patch lockdep-fix-fs_reclaim-annotation.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html