[PATCH v3 -next 1/9] DMA, CMA: fix possible memory leak
From: Joonsoo Kim <hidden>
Date: 2014-06-17 01:29:37
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From: Joonsoo Kim <hidden>
Date: 2014-06-17 01:29:37
Also in:
kvm, linux-mm, linuxppc-dev, lkml
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 03:27:19PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
Hi, Joonsoo On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 02:40:43PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:quoted
We should free memory for bitmap when we find zone mis-match, otherwise this memory will leak. Additionally, I copy code comment from PPC KVM's CMA code to inform why we need to check zone mis-match. * Note Minchan suggested to add a tag for the stable, but, I don't do it, because I found this possibility during code-review and, IMO, this patch isn't suitable for stable tree.Nice idea to put the comment in here. Thanks Joonsoo. It seems you obey "It must fix a real bug that bothers people" on Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt but it's a really obvious bug and hard to get a report from people because limited user and hard to detect small such small memory leak. In my experince, Andrew perfered stable marking for such a obvious problem but simple fix like this but not sure so let's pass the decision to him and will learn a lesson from him and will follow the decision from now on.
Yes, I intended to pass the decision to others. :)
Thanks. Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Thanks.