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From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linmiaohe@huawei.com, rppt@linux.ibm.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] memblock: use kfree() to release kmalloced memblock regions" failed to apply to 4.19-stable tree
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 09:58:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <164603872415262@kroah.com> (raw)


The patch below does not apply to the 4.19-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From c94afc46cae7ad41b2ad6a99368147879f4b0e56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 22:53:27 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] memblock: use kfree() to release kmalloced memblock regions

memblock.{reserved,memory}.regions may be allocated using kmalloc() in
memblock_double_array(). Use kfree() to release these kmalloced regions
indicated by memblock_{reserved,memory}_in_slab.

Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Fixes: 3010f876500f ("mm: discard memblock data later")
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>

diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c
index 1018e50566f3..b12a364f2766 100644
--- a/mm/memblock.c
+++ b/mm/memblock.c
@@ -366,14 +366,20 @@ void __init memblock_discard(void)
 		addr = __pa(memblock.reserved.regions);
 		size = PAGE_ALIGN(sizeof(struct memblock_region) *
 				  memblock.reserved.max);
-		memblock_free_late(addr, size);
+		if (memblock_reserved_in_slab)
+			kfree(memblock.reserved.regions);
+		else
+			memblock_free_late(addr, size);
 	}
 
 	if (memblock.memory.regions != memblock_memory_init_regions) {
 		addr = __pa(memblock.memory.regions);
 		size = PAGE_ALIGN(sizeof(struct memblock_region) *
 				  memblock.memory.max);
-		memblock_free_late(addr, size);
+		if (memblock_memory_in_slab)
+			kfree(memblock.memory.regions);
+		else
+			memblock_free_late(addr, size);
 	}
 
 	memblock_memory = NULL;


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