The patch titled
Subject: mempolicy: fix refcount leak in mpol_set_shared_policy()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mempolicy-fix-refcount-leak-in-mpol_set_shared_policy.patch
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From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mempolicy: fix refcount leak in mpol_set_shared_policy()
When shared_policy_replace() fails to allocate new->policy is not freed
correctly by mpol_set_shared_policy(). The problem is that shared
mempolicy code directly call kmem_cache_free() in multiple places where it
is easy to make a mistake.
This patch creates an sp_free wrapper function and uses it. The bug was
introduced pre-git age (IOW, before 2.6.12-rc2).
[mgorman@xxxxxxx: Editted changelog]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/mempolicy.c | 15 +++++++++------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/mempolicy.c~mempolicy-fix-refcount-leak-in-mpol_set_shared_policy mm/mempolicy.c
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c~mempolicy-fix-refcount-leak-in-mpol_set_shared_policy
+++ a/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2157,12 +2157,17 @@ mpol_shared_policy_lookup(struct shared_
return pol;
}
+static void sp_free(struct sp_node *n)
+{
+ mpol_put(n->policy);
+ kmem_cache_free(sn_cache, n);
+}
+
static void sp_delete(struct shared_policy *sp, struct sp_node *n)
{
pr_debug("deleting %lx-l%lx\n", n->start, n->end);
rb_erase(&n->nd, &sp->root);
- mpol_put(n->policy);
- kmem_cache_free(sn_cache, n);
+ sp_free(n);
}
static struct sp_node *sp_alloc(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
@@ -2301,7 +2306,7 @@ int mpol_set_shared_policy(struct shared
}
err = shared_policy_replace(info, vma->vm_pgoff, vma->vm_pgoff+sz, new);
if (err && new)
- kmem_cache_free(sn_cache, new);
+ sp_free(new);
return err;
}
@@ -2318,9 +2323,7 @@ void mpol_free_shared_policy(struct shar
while (next) {
n = rb_entry(next, struct sp_node, nd);
next = rb_next(&n->nd);
- rb_erase(&n->nd, &p->root);
- mpol_put(n->policy);
- kmem_cache_free(sn_cache, n);
+ sp_delete(p, n);
}
mutex_unlock(&p->mutex);
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
revert-mm-mempolicy-let-vma_merge-and-vma_split-handle-vma-vm_policy-linkages.patch
mempolicy-remove-mempolicy-sharing.patch
mempolicy-fix-a-race-in-shared_policy_replace.patch
mempolicy-fix-refcount-leak-in-mpol_set_shared_policy.patch
mempolicy-fix-a-memory-corruption-by-refcount-imbalance-in-alloc_pages_vma.patch
mempolicy-fix-a-memory-corruption-by-refcount-imbalance-in-alloc_pages_vma-v2.patch
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