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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 1/1] mm: fix vma->anon_name memory leak for anonymous shmem VMAs
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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.

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb

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