The patch titled Subject: mm/shmem: fix freeing new_attr in shmem_initxattrs() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-shmem-fix-freeing-new_attr-in-shmem_initxattrs.patch This patch was dropped because an alternative patch was merged ------------------------------------------------------ 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 vfs-xattr-mm-shmem-kernfs-release-simple-xattr-entry-in-a-right-way.patch