The patch titled Subject: mm/khugepaged: add missing kfree() to madvise_collapse() has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-madvise-introduce-madv_collapse-sync-hugepage-collapse-fix-2.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-madvise-introduce-madv_collapse-sync-hugepage-collapse-fix-2.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 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 via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: "Zach O'Keefe" <zokeefe@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/khugepaged: add missing kfree() to madvise_collapse() Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 09:18:51 -0700 smatch warnings: mm/khugepaged.c:2409 madvise_collapse() warn: possible memory leak of 'cc' Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/202207100715.TBIYQ4fc-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220713024109.62810-1-jrdr.linux@xxxxxxxxx/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220713161851.1879439-1-zokeefe@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 3f7416127072 ("mm/madvise: introduce MADV_COLLAPSE sync hugepage collapse") Signed-off-by: Zach O'Keefe <zokeefe@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/khugepaged.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/mm/khugepaged.c~mm-madvise-introduce-madv_collapse-sync-hugepage-collapse-fix-2 +++ a/mm/khugepaged.c @@ -2468,6 +2468,7 @@ out_maybelock: out_nolock: mmap_assert_locked(mm); mmdrop(mm); + kfree(cc); return thps == ((hend - hstart) >> HPAGE_PMD_SHIFT) ? 0 : madvise_collapse_errno(last_fail); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from zokeefe@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-khugepaged-remove-redundant-transhuge_vma_suitable-check.patch mm-khugepaged-add-struct-collapse_control.patch mm-khugepaged-dedup-and-simplify-hugepage-alloc-and-charging.patch mm-khugepaged-pipe-enum-scan_result-codes-back-to-callers.patch mm-khugepaged-add-flag-to-predicate-khugepaged-only-behavior.patch mm-thp-add-flag-to-enforce-sysfs-thp-in-hugepage_vma_check.patch mm-khugepaged-record-scan_pmd_mapped-when-scan_pmd-finds-hugepage.patch mm-madvise-introduce-madv_collapse-sync-hugepage-collapse.patch mm-madvise-introduce-madv_collapse-sync-hugepage-collapse-fix-2.patch mm-khugepaged-rename-prefix-of-shared-collapse-functions.patch mm-madvise-add-huge_memory-mm_madvise_collapse-tracepoint.patch mm-madvise-add-madv_collapse-to-process_madvise.patch proc-smaps-add-pmdmappable-field-to-smaps.patch selftests-vm-modularize-collapse-selftests.patch selftests-vm-dedup-hugepage-allocation-logic.patch selftests-vm-add-madv_collapse-collapse-context-to-selftests.patch selftests-vm-add-selftest-to-verify-recollapse-of-thps.patch selftests-vm-add-selftest-to-verify-multi-thp-collapse.patch