Commit
0e0da48dee8d ("parisc: mm: don't count preallocated pmds")
introduced a memory leak.
After this commit, the 'return' statement in pmd_free is executed in all
cases. Even for pmd that are not attached to the pgd. So 'free_pages'
can never be called anymore, leading to a memory leak.
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.0+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
static inline void pmd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd)
{
- if(pmd_flag(*pmd) & PxD_FLAG_ATTACHED)
+ if (pmd_flag(*pmd) & PxD_FLAG_ATTACHED) {
/*
* This is the permanent pmd attached to the pgd;
* cannot free it.
*/
mm_inc_nr_pmds(mm);
return;
+ }
free_pages((unsigned long)pmd, PMD_ORDER);
}