On Thu, 31 Aug 2017, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> If initializing a small swap file fails because the swap file has a
> problem (holes, etc.) then we need to free the cluster info as part of
> cleanup. Unfortunately a previous patch changed the code to use
> kvzalloc but did not change all the vfree calls to use kvfree.
>
Hopefully this can make it into 4.13.
Fixes: 54f180d3c181 ("mm, swap: use kvzalloc to allocate some swap data
structures")
Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org [4.12]
> Found by running generic/357 from xfstests.
>
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.w...@oracle.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rient...@google.com>
But I think there's also a memory leak and we need this on top of your
fix:
mm, swapfile: fix swapon frontswap_map memory leak on error
Free frontswap_map if an error is encountered before enable_swap_info().
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rient...@google.com>
---
mm/swapfile.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -3053,6 +3053,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __user *, specialfile,
int, swap_flags)
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);
