From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>,
Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>,
Ying Huang <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>,
Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>, Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>,
Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org,
driver-core@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org, muchun.song@linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] drivers/base/memory: fix memory block reference leak in poison accounting
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:39:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <76d06c0a-fe5c-4d61-a091-919db2ace4a1@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260428085219.1316047-3-songmuchun@bytedance.com>
On 4/28/26 10:52, Muchun Song wrote:
> memblk_nr_poison_inc() and memblk_nr_poison_sub() look up a memory
> block via find_memory_block_by_id(), which acquires a reference to the
> memory block device.
>
> Both helpers use the returned memory block without dropping that
> reference, leaking the device reference on each successful lookup. Drop
> the reference after updating nr_hwpoison.
>
> Fixes: 5033091de814 ("mm/hwpoison: introduce per-memory_block hwpoison counter")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
> Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
--
Cheers,
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-29 10:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-28 8:52 [PATCH v2 0/3] mm: Fix memory block leaks and locking Muchun Song
2026-04-28 8:52 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] mm/memory_hotplug: fix memory block reference leak on remove Muchun Song
2026-04-29 9:38 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-04-28 8:52 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] drivers/base/memory: fix memory block reference leak in poison accounting Muchun Song
2026-04-28 9:13 ` Oscar Salvador
2026-04-29 9:39 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-04-28 8:52 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] drivers/base/memory: fix locking for poison accounting lookup Muchun Song
2026-04-28 9:17 ` Oscar Salvador
2026-04-28 9:21 ` Muchun Song
2026-04-28 11:37 ` Miaohe Lin
2026-04-28 11:40 ` Muchun Song
2026-04-28 12:34 ` Miaohe Lin
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