This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled md/bitmap: fix memory leak of temporary bitmap to the 5.8-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: md-bitmap-fix-memory-leak-of-temporary-bitmap.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 4bd2e67aec6596e210a68c5ffd697b75b38275a6 Author: Zhao Heming <heming.zhao@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Sep 27 13:40:13 2020 +0800 md/bitmap: fix memory leak of temporary bitmap [ Upstream commit 1383b347a8ae4a69c04ae3746e6cb5c8d38e2585 ] Callers of get_bitmap_from_slot() are responsible to free the bitmap. Suggested-by: Guoqing Jiang <guoqing.jiang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Zhao Heming <heming.zhao@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/md/md-bitmap.c b/drivers/md/md-bitmap.c index 95a5f3757fa30..19b2601be3c5e 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md-bitmap.c +++ b/drivers/md/md-bitmap.c @@ -1949,6 +1949,7 @@ int md_bitmap_load(struct mddev *mddev) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(md_bitmap_load); +/* caller need to free returned bitmap with md_bitmap_free() */ struct bitmap *get_bitmap_from_slot(struct mddev *mddev, int slot) { int rv = 0; @@ -2012,6 +2013,7 @@ int md_bitmap_copy_from_slot(struct mddev *mddev, int slot, md_bitmap_unplug(mddev->bitmap); *low = lo; *high = hi; + md_bitmap_free(bitmap); return rv; } @@ -2615,4 +2617,3 @@ struct attribute_group md_bitmap_group = { .name = "bitmap", .attrs = md_bitmap_attrs, }; - diff --git a/drivers/md/md-cluster.c b/drivers/md/md-cluster.c index d50737ec40394..afbbc552c3275 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md-cluster.c +++ b/drivers/md/md-cluster.c @@ -1166,6 +1166,7 @@ static int resize_bitmaps(struct mddev *mddev, sector_t newsize, sector_t oldsiz * can't resize bitmap */ goto out; + md_bitmap_free(bitmap); } return 0;