BUG in shared_policy_replace() ?

[Steve Longerbeam]

Hi Andi,

Why free the shared policy created to split up an old
policy that spans the whole new range? Ie, see patch.

Steve
--- mm/mempolicy.c.orig	2005-01-18 16:13:35.573273351 -0800
+++ mm/mempolicy.c	2005-01-18 16:24:23.940608135 -0800
@@ -1052,10 +1052,6 @@
 	if (new)
 		sp_insert(sp, new);
 	spin_unlock(&sp->lock);
-	if (new2) {
-		mpol_free(new2->policy);
-		kmem_cache_free(sn_cache, new2);
-	}
 	return 0;
 }