* + shmem-use-ramfs_kill_sb-for-kill_sb-method-of-ramfs-based-tmpfs.patch added to mm-unstable branch
@ 2023-06-07 17:43 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2023-06-07 17:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mm-commits, viro, stable, hughd, dhowells, roberto.sassu, akpm
The patch titled
Subject: shmem: use ramfs_kill_sb() for kill_sb method of ramfs-based tmpfs
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
shmem-use-ramfs_kill_sb-for-kill_sb-method-of-ramfs-based-tmpfs.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/shmem-use-ramfs_kill_sb-for-kill_sb-method-of-ramfs-based-tmpfs.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Subject: shmem: use ramfs_kill_sb() for kill_sb method of ramfs-based tmpfs
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2023 18:15:23 +0200
As the ramfs-based tmpfs uses ramfs_init_fs_context() for the
init_fs_context method, which allocates fc->s_fs_info, use ramfs_kill_sb()
to free it and avoid a memory leak.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230607161523.2876433-1-roberto.sassu@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: f32356261d44 ("vfs: Convert ramfs, shmem, tmpfs, devtmpfs, rootfs to use the new mount API")
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
fs/ramfs/inode.c | 2 +-
include/linux/ramfs.h | 1 +
mm/shmem.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/ramfs/inode.c~shmem-use-ramfs_kill_sb-for-kill_sb-method-of-ramfs-based-tmpfs
+++ a/fs/ramfs/inode.c
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ int ramfs_init_fs_context(struct fs_cont
return 0;
}
-static void ramfs_kill_sb(struct super_block *sb)
+void ramfs_kill_sb(struct super_block *sb)
{
kfree(sb->s_fs_info);
kill_litter_super(sb);
--- a/include/linux/ramfs.h~shmem-use-ramfs_kill_sb-for-kill_sb-method-of-ramfs-based-tmpfs
+++ a/include/linux/ramfs.h
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
struct inode *ramfs_get_inode(struct super_block *sb, const struct inode *dir,
umode_t mode, dev_t dev);
extern int ramfs_init_fs_context(struct fs_context *fc);
+extern void ramfs_kill_sb(struct super_block *sb);
#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
static inline int
--- a/mm/shmem.c~shmem-use-ramfs_kill_sb-for-kill_sb-method-of-ramfs-based-tmpfs
+++ a/mm/shmem.c
@@ -4214,7 +4214,7 @@ static struct file_system_type shmem_fs_
.name = "tmpfs",
.init_fs_context = ramfs_init_fs_context,
.parameters = ramfs_fs_parameters,
- .kill_sb = kill_litter_super,
+ .kill_sb = ramfs_kill_sb,
.fs_flags = FS_USERNS_MOUNT,
};
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from roberto.sassu@huawei.com are
memfd-check-for-non-null-file_seals-in-memfd_create-syscall.patch
shmem-use-ramfs_kill_sb-for-kill_sb-method-of-ramfs-based-tmpfs.patch
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