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From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
To: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: jejb@parisc-linux.org, deller@gmx.de, mpatocka@redhat.com,
	kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] parisc: mm: Fix a memory leak related to pmd not attached to the pgd
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 12:46:25 +0300 (EEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150713094625.79B6EA4@black.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1436779963-4286-1-git-send-email-christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>

Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> Commit 0e0da48dee8d ("parisc: mm: don't count preallocated pmds")
> introduced a memory leak.
> 
> After this commit, the 'return' statement in pmd_free is executed in all
> cases. Even for pmd that are not attached to the pgd.
> So 'free_pages' can never be called anymore, leading to a memory leak.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>

> ---
> This patch is *untested* as I don't have the hardware to test it.
> 
> This is just a guess based on the indentation, the comment in the code
> and the commit log.
> ---
>  arch/parisc/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/parisc/include/asm/pgalloc.h b/arch/parisc/include/asm/pgalloc.h
> index 3a08eae..f66d3738 100644
> --- a/arch/parisc/include/asm/pgalloc.h
> +++ b/arch/parisc/include/asm/pgalloc.h
> @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ static inline pmd_t *pmd_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address)
>  
>  static inline void pmd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd)
>  {
> -	if(pmd_flag(*pmd) & PxD_FLAG_ATTACHED)
> +	if (pmd_flag(*pmd) & PxD_FLAG_ATTACHED) {
>  		/*
>  		 * This is the permanent pmd attached to the pgd;
>  		 * cannot free it.
> @@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ static inline void pmd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd)
>  		 */
>  		mm_inc_nr_pmds(mm);
>  		return;
> +	}
>  	free_pages((unsigned long)pmd, PMD_ORDER);
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.1.4
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-13  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-13  9:32 [PATCH] parisc: mm: Fix a memory leak related to pmd not attached to the pgd Christophe JAILLET
2015-07-13  9:46 ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]
2015-07-13 12:48 ` Mikulas Patocka
2015-07-13 18:52 ` Helge Deller
     [not found]   ` <55A4095E.4060200@gmx.de>
2015-07-14 11:52     ` John David Anglin
2015-07-14 12:01       ` John David Anglin
2015-07-20 19:28   ` Meelis Roos
2015-07-14 11:09 ` Dan Carpenter

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