From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-Id: <20111207161219.118282153@clark.kroah.org> Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:11:55 -0800 From: Greg KH To: , Cc: , , , Hillf Danton , Hugh Dickins , Johannes Weiner , Michal Hocko Subject: [053/104] hugetlb: release pages in the error path of hugetlb_cow() In-Reply-To: <20111207161246.GA10995@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Hillf Danton commit ea4039a34c4c206d015d34a49d0b00868e37db1d upstream. If we fail to prepare an anon_vma, the {new, old}_page should be released, or they will leak. Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/hugetlb.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -2422,6 +2422,8 @@ retry_avoidcopy: * anon_vma prepared. */ if (unlikely(anon_vma_prepare(vma))) { + page_cache_release(new_page); + page_cache_release(old_page); /* Caller expects lock to be held */ spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock); return VM_FAULT_OOM;