From: Jackie Liu <liu.yun@linux.dev>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [PATCH] mm/mempolicy: fix memory leak in weighted_interleave_auto_store()
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:07:40 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260331100740.84906-1-liu.yun@linux.dev> (raw)
From: Jackie Liu <liuyun01@kylinos.cn>
Add the missing kfree(new_wi_state) when the auto mode is already set
to the requested value. When a user writes "false" to the auto sysfs
interface and the current mode is already manual (mode_auto == false),
the function returns early without freeing new_wi_state allocated at
the beginning of the function. This can be triggered repeatedly from
userspace, leaking memory on each write.
Fixes: e341f9c3c841 ("mm/mempolicy: Weighted Interleave Auto-tuning")
Signed-off-by: Jackie Liu <liuyun01@kylinos.cn>
---
mm/mempolicy.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index cf92bd6a8226..9ac74178075b 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -3713,6 +3713,7 @@ static ssize_t weighted_interleave_auto_store(struct kobject *kobj,
goto update_wi_state;
if (input == old_wi_state->mode_auto) {
mutex_unlock(&wi_state_lock);
+ kfree(new_wi_state);
return count;
}
--
2.51.1
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-31 10:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-31 10:07 Jackie Liu [this message]
2026-03-31 14:31 ` [PATCH] mm/mempolicy: fix memory leak in weighted_interleave_auto_store() Joshua Hahn
2026-03-31 16:41 ` Donet Tom
2026-03-31 16:53 ` Gregory Price
2026-03-31 19:01 ` Andrew Morton
2026-03-31 19:21 ` Joshua Hahn
2026-03-31 19:24 ` Joshua Hahn
2026-04-01 0:59 ` Jackie Liu
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