+ cgroup-fix-memory-leak-in-cgroup_get_sb.patch added to -mm tree

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The patch titled
     cgroup: fix memory leak in cgroup_get_sb()
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     cgroup-fix-memory-leak-in-cgroup_get_sb.patch

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Subject: cgroup: fix memory leak in cgroup_get_sb()
From: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

opts.release_agent is not kfree()ed in all necessary places.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 kernel/cgroup.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN kernel/cgroup.c~cgroup-fix-memory-leak-in-cgroup_get_sb kernel/cgroup.c
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c~cgroup-fix-memory-leak-in-cgroup_get_sb
+++ a/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -954,8 +954,11 @@ static int cgroup_get_sb(struct file_sys
 	}
 
 	root = kzalloc(sizeof(*root), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!root)
+	if (!root) {
+		if (opts.release_agent)
+			kfree(opts.release_agent);
 		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
 
 	init_cgroup_root(root);
 	root->subsys_bits = opts.subsys_bits;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are

cgroup-fix-and-update-documentation.patch
cgroup-fix-comments.patch
cgroup-clean-up-cgrouph.patch
cgroup-fix-memory-leak-in-cgroup_get_sb.patch
cgroup-fix-subsys-bitops.patch
cgroup-remove-duplicate-code-in-find_css_set.patch
cgroup-remove-dead-code-in-cgroup_get_rootdir.patch
memcgroup-fix-and-update-documentation.patch
memcgroup-remove-a-useless-vm_bug_on.patch
memcgroup-return-negative-error-code-in-mem_cgroup_create.patch

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