David Rientjes <rient...@google.com> writes:
> 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);
Yes. There is a memory leak.
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.hu...@intel.com>
Best Regards,
Huang, Ying
