From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,vishal.l.verma@intel.com,stable@vger.kernel.org,rafael@kernel.org,osalvador@suse.de,nao.horiguchi@gmail.com,linmiaohe@huawei.com,huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com,gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,david@kernel.org,dakr@kernel.org,songmuchun@bytedance.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [to-be-updated] mm-memory_hotplug-fix-memory-block-reference-leak-on-remove.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:04:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260428130435.A07DAC2BCB5@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm/memory_hotplug: fix memory block reference leak on remove
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-memory_hotplug-fix-memory-block-reference-leak-on-remove.patch
This patch was dropped because an updated version will be issued
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From: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Subject: mm/memory_hotplug: fix memory block reference leak on remove
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:44:46 +0800
remove_memory_blocks_and_altmaps() looks up each memory block with
find_memory_block(), which acquires a reference to the memory block
device.
That reference is never dropped on this path, resulting in a leaked device
reference when removing memory blocks and their altmaps. Drop the
reference after retrieving mem->altmap and clearing mem->altmap, before
removing the memory block device.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260426144447.817722-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Fixes: 6b8f0798b85a ("mm/memory_hotplug: split memmap_on_memory requests across memblocks")
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Cc: "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/memory_hotplug.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c~mm-memory_hotplug-fix-memory-block-reference-leak-on-remove
+++ a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -1422,6 +1422,7 @@ static void remove_memory_blocks_and_alt
altmap = mem->altmap;
mem->altmap = NULL;
+ put_device(&mem->dev);
remove_memory_block_devices(cur_start, memblock_size);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from songmuchun@bytedance.com are
drivers-base-memory-fix-memory-block-reference-leak-in-poison-accounting.patch
mm-sparse-remove-sparse-buffer-pre-allocation-mechanism.patch
mm-sparse-vmemmap-fix-vmemmap-accounting-underflow.patch
mm-memory_hotplug-fix-incorrect-altmap-passing-in-error-path.patch
mm-sparse-vmemmap-pass-pgmap-argument-to-memory-deactivation-paths.patch
mm-sparse-vmemmap-fix-dax-vmemmap-accounting-with-optimization.patch
mm-mm_init-fix-pageblock-migratetype-for-zone_device-compound-pages.patch
mm-mm_init-fix-uninitialized-struct-pages-for-zone_device.patch
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