This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
parisc: mm: Fix a memory leak related to pmd not attached to the pgd
to the 4.1-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:
parisc-mm-fix-a-memory-leak-related-to-pmd-not-attached-to-the-pgd.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 4c4ac9a48ac512c6b5a6cca06cfad2ad96e8caaa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 11:32:43 +0200
Subject: parisc: mm: Fix a memory leak related to pmd not attached to the pgd
From: Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 4c4ac9a48ac512c6b5a6cca06cfad2ad96e8caaa upstream.
Commit 0e0da48dee8d ("parisc: mm: don't count preallocated pmds")
introduced a memory leak.
After this commit, the 'return' statement in pmd_free is executed in all
cases. Even for pmd that are not attached to the pgd. So 'free_pages'
can never be called anymore, leading to a memory leak.
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/parisc/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/parisc/include/asm/pgalloc.h
+++ b/arch/parisc/include/asm/pgalloc.h
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ static inline pmd_t *pmd_alloc_one(struc
static inline void pmd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd)
{
- if(pmd_flag(*pmd) & PxD_FLAG_ATTACHED)
+ if (pmd_flag(*pmd) & PxD_FLAG_ATTACHED) {
/*
* This is the permanent pmd attached to the pgd;
* cannot free it.
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ static inline void pmd_free(struct mm_st
*/
mm_inc_nr_pmds(mm);
return;
+ }
free_pages((unsigned long)pmd, PMD_ORDER);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.1/parisc-mm-fix-a-memory-leak-related-to-pmd-not-attached-to-the-pgd.patch
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