commit f1a7941243c1 ("mm: convert mm's rss stats into percpu_counter")
introduces a memory leak by missing a call to destroy_context() when a
percpu_counter fails to allocate.
Before introducing the per-cpu counter allocations, init_new_context()
was the last call that could fail in mm_init(), and thus there was no
need to ever invoke destroy_context() in the error paths. Adding the
following percpu counter allocations adds error paths after
init_new_context(), which means its associated destroy_context() needs
to be called when percpu counters fail to allocate.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 6.2
---
kernel/fork.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index c0257cbee093..c983c4fe3090 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1171,6 +1171,7 @@ static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p,
fail_pcpu:
while (i > 0)
percpu_counter_destroy(&mm->rss_stat[--i]);
+ destroy_context(mm);
fail_nocontext:
mm_free_pgd(mm);
fail_nopgd:
--
2.25.1
