Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 5 Jan 2023 10:03:19 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mm: fix vma->anon_name memory leak for anonymous shmem VMAs | From | David Hildenbrand <> |
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On 05.01.23 03:39, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote: > On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 5:38 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: >> >> On Wed, 4 Jan 2023 16:02:40 -0800 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> wrote: >> >>> free_anon_vma_name() is missing a check for anonymous shmem VMA which >>> leads to a memory leak due to refcount not being dropped. Fix this by >>> calling anon_vma_name_put() unconditionally. It will free vma->anon_name >>> whenever it's non-NULL. >>> >>> Fixes: d09e8ca6cb93 ("mm: anonymous shared memory naming") >> >> A cc:stable is appropriate here, yes? > > Hmm. The patch we are fixing here was merged in 6.2-rc1. Should I CC > stable to fix the previous -rc branch? >
No need for stable if it's not in a release kernel yet.
-- Thanks,
David / dhildenb
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