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Commit 63f74ca2 authored by KOSAKI Motohiro's avatar KOSAKI Motohiro Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mempolicy: fix refcount leak in mpol_set_shared_policy()



When shared_policy_replace() fails to allocate new->policy is not freed
correctly by mpol_set_shared_policy().  The problem is that shared
mempolicy code directly call kmem_cache_free() in multiple places where
it is easy to make a mistake.

This patch creates an sp_free wrapper function and uses it. The bug was
introduced pre-git age (IOW, before 2.6.12-rc2).

[mgorman@suse.de: Editted changelog]
Signed-off-by: default avatarKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent b22d127a
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