Patch "mm/swapfile.c: fix swapon frontswap_map memory leak on error" has been added to the 4.12-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mm/swapfile.c: fix swapon frontswap_map memory leak on error
to the 4.12-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mm-swapfile.c-fix-swapon-frontswap_map-memory-leak-on-error.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
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From: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 16:13:29 -0700
Subject: mm/swapfile.c: fix swapon frontswap_map memory leak on error
From: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
commit b6b1fd2a6bedd533aeed83924d7be0e944fded9f upstream.
Free frontswap_map if an error is encountered before enable_swap_info().
--- mm/swapfile.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
mm/swapfile.c +1 -0
@@ -2904,6 +2904,7 @@ bad_swap:spin_unlock (&swap_lock);vfree (swap_map);kvfree (cluster_info); +kvfree (frontswap_map);if (swap_file) {if (inode &&S_ISREG (inode->i_mode)) {inode_unlock (inode);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.12/mm-swapfile.c-fix-swapon-frontswap_map-memory-leak-on-error.patch queue-4.12/mm-kvfree-the-swap-cluster-info-if-the-swap-file-is-unsatisfactory.patch