mempolicy: fix refcount leak in mpol_set_shared_policy()
authorKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Mon, 8 Oct 2012 23:29:19 +0000 (16:29 -0700)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 17 Oct 2012 02:49:59 +0000 (03:49 +0100)
commit54e670386ee302cd17d17ac398d1e718307633f2
treeba5b17185734c4381cc0838436d1b0f53fceb3f7
parent507c18443d05543b9903d2341f8473dd6191f8ef
mempolicy: fix refcount leak in mpol_set_shared_policy()

commit 63f74ca21f1fad36d075e063f06dcc6d39fe86b2 upstream.

When shared_policy_replace() fails to allocate new->policy is not freed
correctly by mpol_set_shared_policy().  The problem is that shared
mempolicy code directly call kmem_cache_free() in multiple places where
it is easy to make a mistake.

This patch creates an sp_free wrapper function and uses it. The bug was
introduced pre-git age (IOW, before 2.6.12-rc2).

[mgorman@suse.de: Editted changelog]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
mm/mempolicy.c