Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: Fix memory leak on mm_init error handling

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On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 09:38:22AM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> 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.
> 

Fixes: f1a7941243c1 ("mm: convert mm's rss stats into percpu_counter")

> 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

Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>



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