[PATCH 4.1 006/123] parisc: mm: Fix a memory leak related to pmd not attached to the pgd

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sat Aug 08 2015 - 18:39:40 EST


4.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 4c4ac9a48ac512c6b5a6cca06cfad2ad96e8caaa upstream.

Commit 0e0da48dee8d ("parisc: mm: don't count preallocated pmds")
introduced a memory leak.

After this commit, the 'return' statement in pmd_free is executed in all
cases. Even for pmd that are not attached to the pgd. So 'free_pages'
can never be called anymore, leading to a memory leak.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/parisc/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/parisc/include/asm/pgalloc.h
+++ b/arch/parisc/include/asm/pgalloc.h
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ static inline pmd_t *pmd_alloc_one(struc

static inline void pmd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd)
{
- if(pmd_flag(*pmd) & PxD_FLAG_ATTACHED)
+ if (pmd_flag(*pmd) & PxD_FLAG_ATTACHED) {
/*
* This is the permanent pmd attached to the pgd;
* cannot free it.
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ static inline void pmd_free(struct mm_st
*/
mm_inc_nr_pmds(mm);
return;
+ }
free_pages((unsigned long)pmd, PMD_ORDER);
}



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