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mempolicy: fix refcount leak in mpol_set_shared_policy()
authorKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:19:11 +0000 (10:19 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 8 Oct 2012 02:59:55 +0000 (13:59 +1100)
commit161ebd3f208e1e918d46616e1fab2be5eb1b0341
treeb9260f8049843427ee7ec661505c3110c8b0f567
parentfc9677b51d689838b47c9a40897cb90e5883ec5d
mempolicy: fix refcount leak in mpol_set_shared_policy()

When shared_policy_replace() fails to allocate new->policy is not freed
correctly by mpol_set_shared_policy().  The problem is that shared
mempolicy code directly call kmem_cache_free() in multiple places where it
is easy to make a mistake.

This patch creates an sp_free wrapper function and uses it. The bug was
introduced pre-git age (IOW, before 2.6.12-rc2).

[mgorman@suse.de: Editted changelog]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/mempolicy.c