FAILED: patch "[PATCH] memblock: use kfree() to release kmalloced memblock regions" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree

gregkh
2022-02-28T08:59:07Z

The patch below does not apply to the 5.10-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From c94afc46cae7ad41b2ad6a99368147879f4b0e56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 22:53:27 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] memblock: use kfree() to release kmalloced memblock regions

memblock.{reserved,memory}.regions may be allocated using kmalloc() in
memblock_double_array(). Use kfree() to release these kmalloced regions
indicated by memblock_{reserved,memory}_in_slab.

Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Fixes: 3010f876500f ("mm: discard memblock data later")
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>

diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c
index 1018e50566f3..b12a364f2766 100644
--- a/mm/memblock.c
+++ b/mm/memblock.c
@@ -366,14 +366,20 @@ void __init memblock_discard(void)
addr = __pa(memblock.reserved.regions);
size = PAGE_ALIGN(sizeof(struct memblock_region) *
memblock.reserved.max);
- memblock_free_late(addr, size);
+ if (memblock_reserved_in_slab)
+ kfree(memblock.reserved.regions);
+ else
+ memblock_free_late(addr, size);
}

if (memblock.memory.regions != memblock_memory_init_regions) {
addr = __pa(memblock.memory.regions);
size = PAGE_ALIGN(sizeof(struct memblock_region) *
memblock.memory.max);
- memblock_free_late(addr, size);
+ if (memblock_memory_in_slab)
+ kfree(memblock.memory.regions);
+ else
+ memblock_free_late(addr, size);
}

memblock_memory = NULL;