[PATCH] mm: Fix potential memory leak in sys_swapon

From: Miaohe Lin
Date: Wed Sep 30 2020 - 06:19:38 EST


If we failed to drain inode, we would forget to free the swap address space
allocated by init_swap_address_space() above.

Fixes: dc617f29dbe5 ("vfs: don't allow writes to swap files")
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/swapfile.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 2b0c5fc1b0e6..4522b458a814 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -3342,7 +3342,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __user *, specialfile, int, swap_flags)
error = inode_drain_writes(inode);
if (error) {
inode->i_flags &= ~S_SWAPFILE;
- goto bad_swap_unlock_inode;
+ goto free_swap_address_space;
}

mutex_lock(&swapon_mutex);
@@ -3367,6 +3367,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __user *, specialfile, int, swap_flags)

error = 0;
goto out;
+free_swap_address_space:
+ exit_swap_address_space(p->type);
bad_swap_unlock_inode:
inode_unlock(inode);
bad_swap:
--
2.19.1