[PATCH] mm/mempolicy: fix potential mpol_new leak in shared_policy_replace

From: Miaohe Lin
Date: Fri Mar 11 2022 - 04:37:20 EST


If mpol_new is allocated but not used in restart loop, mpol_new will be
freed via mpol_put before returning to the caller. But refcnt is not
initialized yet, so mpol_put could not do the right things and might
leak the unused mpol_new.

Fixes: 42288fe366c4 ("mm: mempolicy: Convert shared_policy mutex to spinlock")
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/mempolicy.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 34d2b29c96ad..f19f19d3558b 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2733,6 +2733,7 @@ static int shared_policy_replace(struct shared_policy *sp, unsigned long start,
mpol_new = kmem_cache_alloc(policy_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!mpol_new)
goto err_out;
+ refcount_set(&mpol_new->refcnt, 1);
goto restart;
}

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