The patch titled
Subject: mm/shmem: fix freeing new_attr in shmem_initxattrs()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-shmem-fix-freeing-new_attr-in-shmem_initxattrs.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-shmem-fix-freeing-new_attr-in-shmem_initxattrs.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-shmem-fix-freeing-new_attr-in-shmem_initxattrs.patch
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From: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/shmem: fix freeing new_attr in shmem_initxattrs()
new_attr is allocated with kvmalloc() so should be freed
with kvfree().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200703065636.20897-1-cgxu519@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/shmem.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/shmem.c~mm-shmem-fix-freeing-new_attr-in-shmem_initxattrs
+++ a/mm/shmem.c
@@ -3178,7 +3178,7 @@ static int shmem_initxattrs(struct inode
new_xattr->name = kmalloc(XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX_LEN + len,
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!new_xattr->name) {
- kfree(new_xattr);
+ kvfree(new_xattr);
return -ENOMEM;
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from cgxu519@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-shmem-fix-freeing-new_attr-in-shmem_initxattrs.patch
