The patch titled Subject: mm/damon/reclaim: fix potential memory leak in damon_reclaim_init() has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-damon-reclaim-fix-potential-memory-leak-in-damon_reclaim_init.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-damon-reclaim-fix-potential-memory-leak-in-damon_reclaim_init.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: Jianglei Nie <niejianglei2021@xxxxxxx> Subject: mm/damon/reclaim: fix potential memory leak in damon_reclaim_init() Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 14:37:46 +0800 damon_reclaim_init() allocates a memory chunk for ctx with damon_new_ctx(). When damon_select_ops() fails, ctx is not released, which will lead to a memory leak. We should release the ctx with damon_destroy_ctx() when damon_select_ops() fails to fix the memory leak. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220714063746.2343549-1-niejianglei2021@xxxxxxx Fixes: 4d69c3457821 ("mm/damon/reclaim: use damon_select_ops() instead of damon_{v,p}a_set_operations()") Signed-off-by: Jianglei Nie <niejianglei2021@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/damon/reclaim.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/damon/reclaim.c~mm-damon-reclaim-fix-potential-memory-leak-in-damon_reclaim_init +++ a/mm/damon/reclaim.c @@ -435,8 +435,10 @@ static int __init damon_reclaim_init(voi if (!ctx) return -ENOMEM; - if (damon_select_ops(ctx, DAMON_OPS_PADDR)) + if (damon_select_ops(ctx, DAMON_OPS_PADDR)) { + damon_destroy_ctx(ctx); return -EINVAL; + } ctx->callback.after_wmarks_check = damon_reclaim_after_wmarks_check; ctx->callback.after_aggregation = damon_reclaim_after_aggregation; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from niejianglei2021@xxxxxxx are mm-damon-reclaim-fix-potential-memory-leak-in-damon_reclaim_init.patch