+ mm-swapfile-fix-swapon-frontswap_map-memory-leak-on-error.patch added to -mm tree

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The patch titled
     Subject: mm/swapfile.c: fix swapon frontswap_map memory leak on error
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     mm-swapfile-fix-swapon-frontswap_map-memory-leak-on-error.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-swapfile-fix-swapon-frontswap_map-memory-leak-on-error.patch
and later at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-swapfile-fix-swapon-frontswap_map-memory-leak-on-error.patch

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From: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/swapfile.c: fix swapon frontswap_map memory leak on error

Free frontswap_map if an error is encountered before enable_swap_info().

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>	[4.12+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 mm/swapfile.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff -puN mm/swapfile.c~mm-swapfile-fix-swapon-frontswap_map-memory-leak-on-error mm/swapfile.c
--- a/mm/swapfile.c~mm-swapfile-fix-swapon-frontswap_map-memory-leak-on-error
+++ a/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -3291,6 +3291,7 @@ bad_swap:
 	spin_unlock(&swap_lock);
 	vfree(swap_map);
 	kvfree(cluster_info);
+	kvfree(frontswap_map);
 	if (swap_file) {
 		if (inode && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) {
 			inode_unlock(inode);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx are

mm-oom-let-oom_reap_task-and-exit_mmap-to-run-concurrently-fix-2.patch
mm-compaction-kcompactd-should-not-ignore-pageblock-skip.patch
mm-compaction-persistently-skip-hugetlbfs-pageblocks.patch
mm-compaction-persistently-skip-hugetlbfs-pageblocks-fix.patch
mm-swapfile-fix-swapon-frontswap_map-memory-leak-on-error.patch
fs-proc-unconditional-cond_resched-when-reading-smaps.patch




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