Re: [PATCH 4/5] mempolicy: fix refcount leak inmpol_set_shared_policy()

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Mel Gorman wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 07:46:09PM +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, Mel Gorman wrote:
> >
> > > @@ -2318,9 +2323,7 @@ void mpol_free_shared_policy(struct shared_policy *p)
> > >  	while (next) {
> > >  		n = rb_entry(next, struct sp_node, nd);
> > >  		next = rb_next(&n->nd);
> > > -		rb_erase(&n->nd, &p->root);
> >
> > Looks like we need to keep the above line? sp_delete does not remove the
> > tree entry.
> >
> > > -		mpol_put(n->policy);
> > > -		kmem_cache_free(sn_cache, n);
> > > +		sp_delete(p, n);
>
> Yes it does, could you have accidentally mixed up sp_free (which does not
> remove the tree entry) and sp_delete (which does)? The altered code ends
> up looking like this;

Yup I got that mixed up.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
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