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authorXiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>2010-05-26 09:51:10 +0800
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2010-05-26 11:26:04 -0700
commit20413f27163fb1b8b806c0c219dc95eae67c633a (patch)
treee40c22039a057bfed07598de0761deda166c8740 /arch/x86/mm/pat.c
parentfe501f1e89cd460793152f500bf25d81d463515b (diff)
x86, pat: Fix memory leak in free_memtype
Reserve_memtype will allocate memory for new memtype, but in free_memtype, after the memtype erased from rbtree, the memory is not freed. Changes since V1: make rbt_memtype_erase return erased memtype so that it can be freed in free_memtype. [ hpa: not for -stable: 2.6.34 and earlier not affected ] Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1274838670-8731-1-git-send-email-dfeng@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/pat.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/pat.c10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
index bbe5502ee1c..acc15b23b74 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
@@ -336,6 +336,7 @@ int free_memtype(u64 start, u64 end)
{
int err = -EINVAL;
int is_range_ram;
+ struct memtype *entry;
if (!pat_enabled)
return 0;
@@ -355,17 +356,20 @@ int free_memtype(u64 start, u64 end)
}
spin_lock(&memtype_lock);
- err = rbt_memtype_erase(start, end);
+ entry = rbt_memtype_erase(start, end);
spin_unlock(&memtype_lock);
- if (err) {
+ if (!entry) {
printk(KERN_INFO "%s:%d freeing invalid memtype %Lx-%Lx\n",
current->comm, current->pid, start, end);
+ return -EINVAL;
}
+ kfree(entry);
+
dprintk("free_memtype request 0x%Lx-0x%Lx\n", start, end);
- return err;
+ return 0;
}