Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] mm/mempolicy: Fix memory leaks in weighted interleave sysfs

From: Gregory Price
Date: Thu Mar 20 2025 - 12:59:43 EST


On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 02:40:01PM +0900, Rakie Kim wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:17:46 +0900 Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Gregory
>
> I initially planned to separate this patch from the hotplug-related patch
> series as an independent update. However, after reviewing the code following
> Jonathan's suggestion to consolidate `kobject` and `node_attrs` into a single
> struct, I realized that most of the intended functionality for Patch 2 was
> already incorporated.
>
> As a result, Patch 1 now only contains the `kobject_put` fix, while the
> struct consolidation work has been included in Patch 2. Given the current
> design, it seems more natural to keep Patch 1 and Patch 2 together as part
> of the same patch series rather than separating them.
>
> Rakie
>

The point of submitting separately was to backport this to LTS via
-stable. We probably still want this since it ostensibly solves a
memory leak - even if the design is to support this work.

~Gregory