From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: zijun_hu <zijun_hu@zoho.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
zijun_hu@htc.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cl@linux.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 2/2] mm/percpu.c: fix potential memory leakage for pcpu_embed_first_chunk()
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 11:55:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161005155558.GE26977@htj.duckdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <db08c942-ff7b-d008-27de-57b9348f1904@zoho.com>
On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 09:30:24PM +0800, zijun_hu wrote:
> From: zijun_hu <zijun_hu@htc.com>
>
> in order to ensure the percpu group areas within a chunk aren't
> distributed too sparsely, pcpu_embed_first_chunk() goes to error handling
> path when a chunk spans over 3/4 VMALLOC area, however, during the error
> handling, it forget to free the memory allocated for all percpu groups by
> going to label @out_free other than @out_free_areas.
Applied 1-2 to percpu/for-4.9.
Thanks for the persistence!
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tejun
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2016-10-05 13:30 [RFC PATCH v3 2/2] mm/percpu.c: fix potential memory leakage for pcpu_embed_first_chunk() zijun_hu
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